I need more information about imovie

Question

Hi, I have some problems with the imovie, sometimes I save a project and when I return it to open has changed and it is listened to very badly or one is slow, also there are times that I apply an effect and duplicated scenes appear to me that before they were not. It wanted to know as I can solve these problems. Another problem which I have with the imovie is that the projects occupy much space and I cannot save more than five projects because if I do not remain without space, I can solve this?, finally it would thank for much that you could say to me all the effects, transitions and titles that are available for the imovie. Thank you very much

Answer 1

Hello, Dalanina,
Welcome to the discussions.
If you are having problems with iMovie, these are some recommendations that might help:
First, you need space on the hard drive for iMovie to operate. You probably need at least 15GB, preferrably 20GB for adequate function.
Next, make sure that you have updated versions of your software: iMovie, QuickTime, iPhoto.
Try deleting the preference file for iMovie. Close iMovie. Go to yourusername->library->preferences->com.apple.imovie.plist. Drag this plist file to the trash. Open iMovie. iMovie makes a new preference file whenever one is trashed.
See if this helps with the problem of the effects/ duplicated scenes.
It is probably best to work on one or two projects at a time because of the space requirements.
There are other things to do to save your projects and save space:
If you have completely finished the movie and do not wish to do more editing, you can burn it to DVD. First, create a DVD project, and when you are ready to burn the DVD, save your project as a disk image. Then, you will be able to burn DVDs from that disk image. For single layer DVDs, the amount of space will be 4.7 GB or less. You can save the disk images for each of your movies and delete the original iMovie projects.
You could also export the finished iMovies back to your camcorder to save them on DV tape, and then delete them from your computer.
You can export an iMovie as a Quicktime movie and then import that into a new iMovie project and delete the old one. The QuickTime movie will be smaller than the original because it will have only the clips you have chosen to be in the movie.
iMovie uses nondestructive editing, so it saves an entire clip in its files even if you put in only a short part of it. For instance, if you have a 15 minute clip and you use only 30 seconds of it in your movie and delete the rest, iMovie still saves the entire 15 minutes. It makes the size of your movie quite large. When you export it as a QuickTime movie, only the 30 seconds you actually want will be saved in the movie.
Consider getting a large external hard drive for your movie projects...and be sure to format it for Macs.