Wrong Images played after upgrade

Question

I upgraded to iLife06 and the edited movies now play the wrong bits of the video clips (but not the wrong media clip). Additionl audio seems to have slipped (music track)
Has anyone had this trouble?

Answer 1

How best to proceed depends a lot on how much editing you intend to do with those iMovie 4 projects. Here are some options:
1. Reinstall iMovie 4 and finish editing them with iMovie 4. (Note that if the clips of Media files are indeed messed up, they will be messed up in iMovie 4 too.)
2. Use iMovie 4 to export to the camera, then re-import to iMovie 6. Most clips will return as discrete clips, just as they were in iMovie 4. Some will lose their "clip-ness", but that may not matter.
3. Create a new iMovie HD project and import the movie "Your iMovie 4 Project Name.mov" that's inside the iMovie 4 project folder into a iMovie HD project. Everything will arrive as a single clip and play in the proper over. (Stuff that's missing will still be missing.)
4. Drag the DV clips from the iMovie 4 project folder's Media folder into the iMovie 6 project. They will arrive in no particular order.
5. If lots of clips are damaged there may be little value in trying to rescue them. Rather than try to make sense of the mess -- which can waste a good week or two -- it's probably better starting over in iMovie 6. Starting over usually goes a lot faster than you think for you know WHAT you want to do; you just have to DO it.
6. Don't forget too that the project.mov in the iMovie 4 project can play in QuickTime Player without iMovie 4. Playing it will help you see what may be missing.
Yes, iMovie HD 6 lets you edit both (normal) DV and (high definition) HDV. Plus several other types of movie too. See iMovie Help.
Karl