If iMovie Won't Start-No New Project Menu item ( 7.1.1 or 7.1) - How To Fix

Go to display preferences.
Change (for now) to Apple RGB or one of the Apple presets.
If you have a "XXX [name] Calibrated" profile delete it (if you did an import assistant install and have a bunch of old profiles for old monitors, delete them too)
Re-calibrate and give the profile a new name.
Apparently old 10.4 calibrations upset iMovie 7.1 on and you make a new one and it works.

Same exact issue here. Brand new iMac purchased on 10/30 that still had Tiger installed... Thanks for putting all that upgrade work on me Apple! I waited until after the release to order my iMac so I wouldn't have to go through the brain damage of upgrading, only to find out that I had to spend hours upgrading the brand-new machine! I have not had internet access to get the latest patches, but should have such access tonight to download the patches that might fix this.
iMovie apparently doesn't work on a brand-new iMac when all you have are the DVD's that shipped with it. I even tried applying the various updates from the Leopard dvd and tried re-installing iMovie from the Tiger dvd.
If you fixed this problem, please reply here and reveal what it was... Thanks!

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When I open up Premiere Elements and try to start a new project, all it shows is a black and purple line, then it just stops. I have already tried updating QuickTime, Windows 7, Nvidia Drivers, and Uninstalling and then Reinstalling Premiere elements. I am running it on a PC that has an AMD FX(tm)-6300 Six Core Proccessor, 8 GB of RAM, a Nvidia G-Force GTX 650, and i installed the program on a secondary hard drive with 761 GB of free space.

xXFIRE
What is this "secondary hard drive" on which you originally installed Premiere Elements 12? Internal or external and how formatted NTSC or FAT32?
I do not see where anyone has asked about "Scratch Disks" as they relate to your issues?
Please refer to Edit Menu/Preferences/Scratch Disks...
a. Where are the scratch disks directed and how much free hard drive space is at that location?
b. Do you have all the scratch disks categories directed to the same place? If not, do so and make sure there is lots of free hard drive space where you are pointing them to.
Please look for pile ups of preview files in the Adobe Premiere Elements Preview Files Folder and pile ups of conformed audio in the Media Cache Folder. Both these folders by default are in Documents/Adobe/Premiere Elements/12.0.
Please go to Edit Menu/Preferences/Media and hit the Clean button in the Media Cache Database in that area.
As for the matter of where Premiere Elements program should be installed. Interesting question and some interesting answers. Back in a 2010 thread here on this type of subject, Akshat B (Adobe Staff) wrote
Yes you can install Premiere Elements on any other drive. For that you need to follow these steps:
1. Uninstall current copy of Premiere Elements.
2. Start the installer of Premiere ELements.
3. Choose a location on d:\ drive after choosing the default TV format.
Please keep in mind, even if you select d: drive as the install location some amount of data will get copied to C: drive.
-Akshat
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3284673
Is your Local Disc C, a SSD drive? Why is there so little free space on your Local Disc C?
More later.
Looking forward to your follow up?
ATR

TS3391 iMovie 11 is not working. I try to open it and it says it is generating thumbnails for one of my previous projects. All the commands are gray. I have to force it to quit. I just want to capture clips to start a new project.

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Nobody replied so I called Apple. They seemed to think they could fix the problem but I had to agree to pay about $20 first. I told them to put it down as a complaint. I only want to use the software I bought. I can't see that it is my fault it is malfunctioning. I guess I will have to pay. It doesn't seem right.

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So I am I getting the "cannot allocate memory" error whenever I try to start a new project in FCPX
System specs:
Model Name:          Mac Pro
Model Identifier:          MacPro3,1
Processor Name:          Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed:          2.8 GHz
Number of Processors:          2
Total Number of Cores:          8
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Type:          GPU
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The account is not a server account.
I've removed all preferences and all references to FCPX, reinstalled, no difference.
I have tried every suggestion on every apple support discussion thread, save reinstalling the OS, which I will not do. Nothing works.
FCPX won't let me select a default location for projects, either.
This is the only application on my system that doesn't work. Anyone have any suggestions?

I figured it out:
FCPX does not support NTFS drives, even with Paragon NTFS working perfectly for everything else on the system.
I guess Apple (just) assumes that nobody will, or should, be using any other filesystem than Mac with FCPX.
I wasted hours looking for a solution, when a better error message besides a misleading "cannot allocate memory" could have been something more useful.
Not impressed.

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Window XP 64
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual
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I have a problem with elements 8. When ever I start a new project, the program searches for the old, latest used filmmaterial, I have used before. That means, if I use a different DVD, it take so much time, until the program starts. So how can I stopp the

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IMovie won't start after update to 7.1

Just installed the update this morning, and iMovie won't start up any more...
I searched here but there are so many things that come up... but none of which look like this problem.
I've trashed prefs, restarted... nada. Didn't try reinstalling and -not- updating yet.
Any help appreciated-
thanks,
Andrew

had the same problem with my iMovie and thanks to this discussion, i removed 3 DivX Plug Ins, restarted and iMovie worked fine.
dragged back the latest DivX Plug In (6.4.0) and iMovie's still running ok.
i'm guessing the culprit's either the Decoder 6.0.5 and/or DivX 5, both of which were also installed and now removed.
i still have Flip4Mac installed in Library/QuickTime.

I just downloaded after effects and opened it for the first time and i can't start a new project

everytime i click on the bar above the program to start a new project it crashes

Sorry to hear that. Perhaps you ought to provide some information for diagnostic purposes:
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Can't start a new project in PSE8?

I recently installed PSE8 and was able to start a new project wothout any problems. Today I attempted to start a new project from the welcome screen and got nothing. It acted like it was thinking for a bit but then resorted back to the original welcome screen. Am I missing something here?

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I am not able to understand what do you mean by Project. Are you talking about Catalogs in Organizer?
If you don't know exact terminology please explain the workflow you are following and the problem you are facing....

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When I open After Effects, It can't start a new project or new composition and It's only show me the render queue panel.
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You have launched the render-only app. Check to launch the correct full app.
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I tried to start a new project and bring up a new sequence but it does not show up on the timeline no matter how many times I try it. So I tried to open a previous project to do it quickly and it gives me the message "The project contained a sequence that could not be opened. No sequence preview preset file or codec could be associated with this sequence type" which I'm assuming is probably part of the same issue. Anyone know what the heck is going on.

Missing Presets/Activation http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1050730?tstart=0
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When I try to start a new project with Encore and save the file to our network cluster (An Isilon Server), I get a file not found error message. When I try to do this to a local drive, it works just fine. None of the other Adobe products (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects) have this problem with this network drive.
Greg Glaser

Yes, it worked on the local drive, and also to a Windows Networked Server that was not the Isilon. Even after creating the project and moving it to the Isilon, it was generating error messages after a few minutes of use. The Isilon is using a BSD variant of Linux and Samba. The really strange part is the all other Adobe products from the Production Suite work with this server without any problems at all.

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That shows you that iPhoto is working correctly and whatever issue you are having is based in your original library.
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.

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see if the "oddbal problems" fix helps:
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