Adding titles and transitions in iMovie HD 6

Tried to add titles and transitions to a couple of short ( 5 mins and 10 mins or so) films only to find sound is out of sync with pics. On checking found that I had recorded in 12 bit audio (dammit). Is this the cause of my problems and is there anything I can do long after the fact? I thought this was only a problem that happened when you had long films being sent to iDVD.

Sorry, iMovie doesn't offer that transition feature, nor does iMovie support Applescript. The only way I know to add a transition is to manually add it to the Timeline.
Regrettably, sometimes Apple doesn't eat its own dog food.
Karl

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About a month ago, I began periodically getting the spinning wheel while trimming, adding titles or transitions, etc. It lasts for about 15 seconds and then goes away. This seems to happen once every minute or two. I have more than enough RAM/Power, etc. About every other time I use FCPX it will spontaneously close (typically when editing a title). None of these things were happening previously. I have lots of projects that I store on Promise Pegasus drives via Thunderbolt. I only keep a few projects and the associated events open in FCPX at a time, otherwise I use Event Managaer X to keep track of them. Can anybody give me any suggestions as to why this is occurring and what I can do to remedy it? I have the latest version of FCPX as far as I can tell. This is driving me mad and costing me significant time while editing. By the way, I am doing just basic editing. Essentially trimming, cutting and adding some transitions and a few title screens. Thanks in advance for your help.

These apperarances of the spinning wheel tend to be related to some io operation that takes too long. Maybe the finder is trying to reach a network server that became unavailable.
I would try clearing caches and do an overall maintenance with an utility like OnyX.
Also, trashing preferences does no harm and is often the first troubleshooting measure when FCP X misbehaves.

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Reason: a better title for search ability

Ask in the Premiere forum or whatever and be a lot more specific. We know nothing about your system, your footage, your settings.
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lagrl

Have you tried turning off automatic transitions ? Choose file - project properties and follow the dialogue box to change duration with a slider. iMovie also doesn't allow a transition to be more than 50% duration of the clip its attached to. In other words if the clip is 4 seconds the transition cannot be more than 2 seconds and remember that relates to the first clip as the following clip (right side) is pulled back to overlay it.
Does this help. Perhaps you already know this ?

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When I did the update several of the title slides and transition slides disappeared. Is there any way to get them back? Where do I find them?

Hi
Really no real vision memory of this - but You may be right and then
• Turn on Advance tools
• Trashing the iMovie pref file
• Repair permissions
use to help when things don't work OK
Yours Bengt W

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Holy *&$^, no kidding. I mean this is bad. I can't really do anything on iMovie at all. I really hope there is a simple solution to this, b/c if this really is part of a bad release, Apple will not hear the end of it.

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I just bought a MacBook Pro and have been using iMovie to edit short films. Is there anyway I can add more titles and effect. the titles and effects i have on my powerbook G4 are more than the ones on my new laptop. Isn't this new machine supposed to have better options???
Please help me find a way to incorporate more interesting titles and effects to my films.
Thank you!!

Hi Crew:
Welcome to discussions!
You don't need to 'update' the titles-just drag them.
Look at this little video (really it's quick!) for a tutorial:
http://www.danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/usage/5017.shtml
Wouldn't hurt to peruse the entire site actually!
Sue

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<photo path="405.jpg" width="405" height="470"
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price="4715200" artist="Ernest Albert"/>
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When I insert someting like a moving title, or a fading transition into my movie: the full-screen playback (and not the playback on the viewer) gets choppy or skips a movement. It specifically happens where the screen should be fading/transitioning or when a title should be moving/fading onto the screen. I have all the updates for 09 and I'm pretty sure that if this is the case on a full-scree, it would defenitely happen on a published exported version.

When I insert someting like a moving title, or a fading transition into my movie: the full-screen playback (and not the playback on the viewer) gets choppy or skips a movement. It specifically happens where the screen should be fading/transitioning or when a title should be moving/fading onto the screen. I have all the updates for 09 and I'm pretty sure that if this is the case on a full-scree, it would defenitely happen on a published exported version.

Alpha channel is gone in imovie titles and transitions

Hi,
Who can help me with this problem: http://files.rwdproducties.nl/vraagbaakvideos/ENhelpasked.mov
I don't know where to search anymore to solve it.
(Already did verify permissions and repair permissions and this did not fix the problem)
I use iMovie everyday for my small business and desperate for some help here.
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Ben

There could be a missing component in Snow Leopard. I would try backing up your system to an external disk using a tool like Super Duper. Then reinstall Snow Leopard. Then use the Migration Utility to reinstall everything,
Better yet, have you tried contacting Apple? There is a Contact Us link for Apple at the bottom right of this page.

Problems setting duration for still photos and transitions in iMovie '11

I downloaded iMovie 11 from the Apps Store last night and am trying to make my first movie with it today. I use still photos exclusively.
For most - but not all - I like 5 seconds for photos and for transitions 2 seconds. I do vary this on occasion and so do not check "for all photos' or "for all transitions".
I can't get these settings to work with this version of iMovie. For example, I added a photo (5 sec) then a transition (2 sec) which changed the duration time of the photo - as it should. But when I double clicked the photo, to bring up the inspector window to change the duration of the photo, nothing happened. Then I added another photo. The duration of the first photo increased to 7 seconds and nothing I do seemed to change that.
The time increases seem random: for example, sometimes the time on the still photo increases to 6:29 sec, sometimes to 7 sec.
The duration for the transitions always remains the same - 2 sec; it's the time for the photos that jumps around. And I haven't been able to find a way to get back to 5 sec.
Before posting this, I researched and found an number of earlier posts detailing the same issues.
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Interesting!!
I've spent a lot of hours on this too, but I have come up with a different solution perhaps because I like to vary both the image duration and the transition duration in my movies.
Here's my process:
-> Knowing that (a) I want most of the photos to be visible for 5 seconds and most transitions for 2 seconds and (b) that a transition takes half from the photo before and half from the photo after, under File>Project Properties>Photo Duration I chose 7 seconds - each photo will 'lose' a total of 2 seconds from the transitions in front and behind. I did not check either "Applies to all transitions." or "Applies to all photos." - See below for why.
-> I discovered, as you have, that all the photos have to go in before I add any transitions. This was new to me. With all previous versions of iMovie I simply added a photo then a transition then another photo one at a time. I had to fiddle with the timing adjustments, but at least I could fiddle. With this new version of iMovie I can't. Once the transition is in place, I cannot change the duration of the photo.
-> Sometimes, I want a longer or shorter duration for a photo. For example, on photos to which I apply the Ken Burns effect, I often want the image on the screen for a slightly longer time. In this case, I have to use the inspector to change the duration before I add the transitions. So I might set the time for 8 seconds; when both transitions are added, the time for this photo becomes 6 seconds, which is what I want.
-> The same applies if I want a transition to be shorter or longer than 2 seconds. If, for example, I want the duration for a transition to be 1 second, then I have to change the duration on the two linked photos to 5 1/2 seconds.
All of this requires much more prior planning than I am used to with iMovie. Right now, I working with batches of 5 or 6 photos at a time. I don't put a transition on the last photo in the batch until I have added the next group of photos. And things get really tricky if I don't like my original design. If I want to change anything, I have to take out all of the transitions linking the photos I want to work on, do the math, make the changes in the photo durations, then put the transitions back.
Perhaps I am trying to make iMovie do more than it was intended to do, I don't know. Perhaps this problem stems from the fact that I bought just iMovie 11 from the Mac Apps Store and not the entire iLife 11. Don't know that either. But at least I have found a way to make the movie look the way I want it to look.
Thanks for sharing your process. I will use it when the circumstances are right.

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Also, the intro is not showing up at all.
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I guess I should try something other than Toast to burn the DVD and see if that works. Thanks for the suggestion.

IMovie quits when adding titles

iMovie (9.0.8) quits when adding titles (and sometimes just randomly although it seems to be related to adding titles).
I have repaired permissions and deleted com.apple.iMovieApp.plist from library to no avail.
It is not related to a corrupt project as it happens to all my current projects.
This is the first part of the crash report:
Process:         iMovie [16194]
Path:            /Applications/iMovie.app/Contents/MacOS/iMovie
Identifier:      com.apple.iMovieApp
Version:         9.0.8 (1778)
Build Info:      iMovieApp-1778000000000000~1
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [148]
User ID:         501
Date/Time:       2012-10-21 10:49:22.738 +0800
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.8.2 (12C60)
Report Version: 10
Interval Since Last Report:          316922 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           21480
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 216105 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   7
Anonymous UUID:                      41763BF4-5BD1-26E5-4614-F60738A1FE56
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x000000000000025d
VM Regions Near 0x25d:
--> __PAGEZERO             0000000000000000-0000000000001000 [    4K] ---/--- SM=NUL /Applications/iMovie.app/Contents/MacOS/iMovie
    VM_ALLOCATE            0000000000001000-00000000000e2000 [ 900K] ---/--- SM=NUL

Hi
I doubt - BUG - I guess corrupted iMovie pref file (to get this You only need to Force/Panic Halt the program and errors are entered in it)
See if this helps
When iMovie doesn't work as intended this can be due to a lot of reasons
• iMovie Pref files got corrupted - trash it/they and iMovie makes new and error free one's
• Creating a new User-Account and log into this - forces iMovie to create all pref. files new and error free
• Event or Project got corrupted - try to make a copy and repair
• a codec is used that doesn't work
• problem in iMovie Cache folder - trash Cache.mov and Cache.plist
• version miss match of QuickTime Player / iMovie / iDVD
• preferences are wrong - Repair Preferences
• other hard disk problem - Repair Hard Disk (Disk Util tool - but start Mac from ext HD or DVD)
• External hard disks - MUST BE - Mac OS Extended (hfs) formatted to work with Video
( UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange - works for most other things - but not for Video )
• USB-flash-memories do not work
• Net-work connected hard disks - do not work
• iPhoto Library got problems - let iPhoto select another one or repair it. Re-build this first then try to re-start iMovie.
This You do by
_ close iPhoto
_ on start up of iPhoto - Keep {cmd and alt-keys down}
_ now select all five options presented
_ WAIT a long long time
• free space on Start-Up (Mac OS) hard disk to low (<1Gb) - I never go under 25Gb free space for SD-Video (4-5 times more for HD)
• external devices interferes - turn off Mac - disconnect all of them and - Start up again and re-try
• GarageBand fix - start GB - play a few notes - Close it again and now try iMovie
• Screen must be set to million-colors
• Third-party plug-ins doesn't work OK
• Run "Cache Out X", clear out all caches and restarts the Mac
• Let Your Mac be turned on during one night. At about midnight there is a set of maintenance programs that runs and tidying up. This might help
• Turn off Your Mac - and disconnect Mains - for about 20-30 minutes - at least this resets the FireWire port.
• In QuickTime - DivX, 3ivx codec, Flip4Mac, Perian etc - might be problematic - temporarily move them out and re-try
(I deleted the file "3ivxVideoCodec.component" located in Mac HD/Library/Quicktime and this resolved my issue.)
buenrodri wrote
I solved the problem by removing the file: 3ivxVideoCodec.component. after that, up-dated iMovie runs ok.
Last resort: Trash all of iMovie and re-install it
Yours Bengt W

Title and end slides in IMovie?

Is there any way to have a blank background you can write on for the title and ending in iMovie '09.
I don't want that info superimposed over the video. I would have thought they could provide a single panel to do that similar to all the other titles they offer. Do you have to make that elsewhere and import it?
Thank you

Wow, thank you, Apple man! That was simple. However, I found that when I select the Centered title which shows a larger heading and a smaller subheading, as soon as I try to select a font, color, and size, both lines, heading and subheading, default to the same size, and won't go back to 2 different size fonts. It seems to be one text field, rather than two separate one, as it is in the "Lower Third" title.
I guess that can't be helped.
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