IMovie 10: Events / Projects layout

Is there an option/setting in iMovie version 10 to sort/list events and projects the same way as iMovie 11 version 9, events up top and projects below? The current layout is very confusing. Thanks.

Basically no. Projects are now part of events and not separate from them.
Geoff.

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How to restore iMovie 10 events & projects from Time Machine?

Here is the scenario I am facing: I completed some projects and then moved those events & projects to an external HD that subsequently died. The question I have is how can I tap into Time Capsule's history to restore the events and projects I moved out from the internal HD and later lost because the external HD died? All of this happened in Mac OS Mavericks, running iMovie 10, so "my stuff" lives within the "iMovie Library.imovielibrary" file whose content I should not see/modify.
Thank you, eugen

Hello eugen_nw
Open up Finder and navigate to your Movies folder where the library was stored and enter Time Machine and you should see the cascading Finder Windows and you can go back an find the file and then click Restore to bring back the file. Check out the article below and there is a section for restoring files.
Mac Basics: Time Machine backs up your Mac
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1427
Regards,
-Norm G.

Merging iMovie 10 events, projects and library...

I had my prior version iMovie events and projects on a nonstartup internal drive (in folders "iMovie Events" and "iMovie Projects"). I hadn't used iMovie in a while, and iMovie had updated itself to version 10.0.5. Last night I opened it up and used it, and now have an "iMovie Events," "iMovie Projects," and "iMovie Library" file in ~/Documents/Movies
I'd like to move the contents of the new Events and Projects folder to the nonstartup internal drive location with all the projects and events (old and new) in those folders on the nonstartup drive. From what I've read, that is supposed to be done within iMovie, but I don't see how to do that. The drive does NOT show up anywhere within iMovie!
Secondly, I only seem to have one iMovie Library file, and it is in ~/Documents/Movies, but when iMovie 10 opened, there were no events or projects listed. How do persuade iMovie 10 to load the old projects and events? If I open up iMovie 9.0.9, it shows the projects and events that were created under 9.0.9 but does NOT show the 10.0.5 projects and events. Is the 9.0.0 iMovie Library file in a different location, and if so, is there a way to merge the contents of these libraries?

Basically no. Projects are now part of events and not separate from them.
Geoff.

I have copied videos onto an external hard drive. to free memory on my macbook. When I try to delete these I am warned that I will not be able to use this video in existing projects How do I point iMovie to events in my external hard drive so I can pl

I have copied videos onto an external hard drive. to free memory on my macbook. When I try to delete these I am woarned that I will not be able to use this video in existing projects
How do I point iMovie to events in my external hard drive so I can play projects which use them?
MacBook, iMovie 9.0.4

Hi
You can do this - by not doing it the way You describe as it will not work.
a. the external hard disk - MUST BE - Mac OS extended (hfs) formatted -
UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange - will work for most things - BUT NOT FOR VIDEO (iMovie, iDVD or FinalCut doesn't matter)
b. Do not alter or move any folder named
• iMovie Event's - or -
• iMovie Project's
on DeskTop/Finder - at all
All moving's of Events and Projects must be done within the iMovie Application - then connections will not break.
(move them back and see if iMovie remembers them - then do move as described above)
Yours Bengt W

Is it possible to have more than one event/project in Imovie at the same time?

Let me see if I can shorten this. I am working on a project for a review. It's going to take quite awhile and I'm half way through it. However, I need to work on another project, one thats short and I can dish out fairly quickly. My problem is that I cannot start it without discarding my current project. Which I cannot do because I will lose a weeks worth of data. And I cannot save it because it will combine all the clips and I would have to re-split them (half a days progress).
So in short, is there a way to save my project as-is? Or possible create a new event and start a new project while maintaining my current work? Thank you for your help!

Version 10.0.3 is the latest version of iMovie. iMove '11 (as in 2011) is version 9.
iMovie saves your Projects automatically. So you can just choose to create a new Project. Your existing Projects will remain available for you to go back to whenever you like.
You can have as many Projects as you like. You don't need ot finish one before you begin another.
Post back if you have specific questions.
Matt

Moving the iMovie 9 Resources (Events & Projects) Folders ?

Hi there. Recently I moved my iTunes Library and Aperture Library folder to an external dedicated 1TB hard drive.... this has been great in freeing up valuable hard drive space on my main computers hard drive. My iMovie resource files (i Movie Events & iMovie Project) are also very large and it would be great to move these to the external 1TB drive. But when I look at the preferences for the app... I don't see a "selection destination library" option. It must be something silly I'm not seeing.... or can it be... you can't have the resource files exist outside the main "Movies" folder on the main user drive.
Any comments or suggestions are most welcome.
Yours sincerely,
Anthony
Irish MacUser & MacAddict
Message was edited by: Anthony MacCarthy

You can move Events and Projects to the external drive. This must be done in iMovie, not the Finder.
First click VIEW/By DISK. You will see your properly formatted drives listed in the Events source pane and the Projects source pane. You can drag and drop Events and Projects to these disk icons. iMovie will automatically create the proper folders on the external drive.
There are additional options in iMovie 09. For example, you can move an Event, Project, and associated resources to an external drive together, so that if you need to port them to a different computer, it is easily done. See the HELP for details.

Unable to Understand iMove Events, Projects, or iMovie Photo Library. Help!

I've got iMovie 10.1 and, unlike other Apple software, I cannot make heads or tails about how it is storying my video clips.   Things that appear in IMovie Library do not appear in All Events. How can that be possible? Shouldn't All Events contain any clip I have imported? I can't even figure out what is the difference between those two folders.   I can't figure out what All Projects contains. either. It seems to contain the same thing that is in iMovie Library so why have two folders with different names that have the same things?
I've been trying to research this on the web and have not found anybody who can explain what these different folders mean.   Can somebody here do it?
Also, I can't delete a clip no matter what I do. If I right click on it and say move to trash (while in IMovie Library) it looks like it deleted it but when I go to the actual folder in the Finder, where IMovie Library is, the clip is still there.   This is one of those maddening cases where the delete button does not delete anything.
The help for iMovie is basically useless. I cannot find any explanation as to how to delete a clip or how to organize them using these confounding folder names that seem to be different names for exactly the same thing. Has anybody mastered this?

iMovie 10.1 stores everything in a library package with the extension .imovielibrary but you can have more than 1 library. When in iMovie, 'All Events' should show all the events in the currently open libraries just as 'All Projects' should do for projects. These are not actual folders but simply display all the items currently available from the open libraries.
Deleting clips is described in help under: Browse & organize the library - Organize your events & projects - Delete movies, trailers, clips, and events
Help does contain a lot more information that appears at first but its not always obvious which section to find it in. Its worth going through it all carefully because so many things have been changed in imovie 10 compared to 9.
Some patience is needed to get in tune with the new way of doing things.
Best of luck!
Geoff.

Delete iMovie Events, Projects, Sharing after update iMovie 10.0?

After updating to iMovie 10.0 in Finder appears a 'iMovie-library' but the folders 'iMovie Events, Projects and Sharing' are still there too. These last folders are roughly same size as the new 'iMovie-library'. Can you delete these old folders? I could use the space!
I have already updated my old library.
Thanks in advance!

I updated to Mavericks and the new iMovie last night as well as I have always been an early adopter. Unfortunately this time, I think I was a little too quick.
From what I can tell, the new iMovie takes all old events and creates a new iMovie library. I believe if you wanted to, you could potentially revert back via time machine and grab the old imovie back and use the old events and projects folders? Can someone please confirm? I would like to do this.
After I did my upgrade, I was left with to iMovie events libraries. One was called iMovie events and the other imovie events 1. The second one is my old library that resides on my external thunderbolt drive where I would like to keep it. The iMovie theater folder was also added but inside the Movies folder on my internal drive. I don't want that either.
I usually adopt pretty quickly to iMovie changes but at this point it might have finally pushed me to Final Cut Pro X, to get back that iMovie linear "feel". I can't see anything at all anymore in the new iMovie that shows any time line and ease of use.
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Event/Project Workflow - Suggestions?

My camcorder records to minidv tapes. I keep them filed and archived so content can be easily found in future years...
I take the MiniDV tapes and import footage I want to edit into iMovie 08. I make my projects with pretty titles and fades and music and all that good stuff and I share them to YouTube. Sometimes I also make iDVD projects, but usually not. I typically just share to friends and family via YouTube.
SO now my harddrive has all this event footage on it that is duplicated on the MiniDV tapes...but of course as you know I cant delete the events w/o screwing up the projects, even if ive already shared the projects (gone thru the rendering process)...right???
so if I want to clear out my iMovie events and projects (and therefore make space on my harddrive) BUT if I also wish to keep the projects for future viewing do I just have to go to YouTube to view them? I dont like that idea... or can I copy the project files on an external hard drive or on a DVD for safekeeping and THEN delete all the events/projects out of iMovie?
what do you guys do? Im starting to really use up my harddrive....
thanks in advance!
Kristin

Petersonk01 wrote:
.. Are you all telling me that I have no choice but to let both events and associated projects pile up in my iMovie for years on end w no ability to clean them out if I ever want to enjoy viewing or sharing my projects in the future??
basicly..
no, kiddin'
a) you can drag _in iMovie_ Projects and Events to any Mac-formatted, external harddrive
b) .. which allows, to edit this material in the future
c) just for viewing (=no editing), you can Export using QT/and to any codec you like .. in the future.
problem with any digital media is: you HAVE to store it somewhere.. and you have two cliffs to go:
what 'format'?
what to do with it in the future?
my personal point of view:
keep the raws (tape/Archive SDcards/Archive card's file structure/... )
keep a FullQuality (=projects native codec) Export.. on HDD, tape (=nevermore with iM08/09),
create a videoDVD.. of project, keep that safe&dry&dark..
=> I never have the plan, to re-edit any older projects.
so, I can erase all files on my Mac...

Imovie library & events - how to shrink the files

I am trying to make sure that imovie 10 is not unnessarily taking up disk space. Previously, imovie 9 was pretty simple and did not create these imovie theater and library files, and I knew where to delete the events files that were copied into imove for editing. In imovie 10 however, I have not been able to find any files lingering in the events folder even though it looks as though (given the processing clock displayed) importing files into imovie 10 does involve copying without asking the user to chose like in imovie 9.
Question 1: does imovie 10 store the events files somewhere else and need to be deleted to recover disk space?
Question 2: there is this huge 14GB+ "imovie library.imovielibrary" file sitting in my movies folder. Is there a way get rid of it or shrink it? All the files that I "share" (ie output) from imovie are stored elsewhere within my movies folder (and then backed up). I really can use any disk space I can free up from imovie. I have already deleted the theater files that serve no useful purpose to me.
Thanks a lot.

A couple of thoughts....
When you convert your projects and events to iMovie 10 from iMovie 11, you have the option to keep your iMovie 11 Events and projects intact so you can continue to use iMovie 11.
If you took this option, it uses hard links so that both iMovie 11 and iMovie 10 can access the same clips but not take up double the space.
This has other implications:
1) If you delete your iMovie 10 event, it does not save you any space. You have to delete both the iMovie 10 and the iMovie 11 event to get back the space.
2) Hard links do not work when you copy to a new drive, so if you copy your iMovie 10 and your iMovie 11 events over to a new drive, now they will take up twice the space.
3) Therefore, if you are thinking of moving to a new drive, you should move the iMovie 11 events and projects over (from within iMovie 11). Then open iMovie 10 and convert the iMovie 11 stuff to iMovie 10, and it will use hard links and not take up double the space.
Hard links are also used in Time Machine so you can have the same file assigned to multiple dates without taking up more room. Also used in Final Cut Pro X extensively. For example, you can import your iMovie Events into FCP without doubling up space.

Migrate iMovie 10 Events to Final Cut Pro X

Can I migrate iMovie 10 events and clips to Final Cut Pro X?
When I search on migration, the posts talk about migrating the movies, not events or clips.     However, I want to migrate my iMovie 10 library of 1000's of events and 10,000's of clips sitting in iMovie 10 to Final Cut Pro X.   And if you can't migrate, is the expection that you re-catalog (associate with events, mark favorties, etc) five years of clips in Final Cut Pro X?
-- Mark

Tom, thanks.   I tried moving about 100 clips to a project and then within iMovie chose send to FCP.   It locked up iMovie.   But even using that method, since you have to move clips and not events, it forces to you recreate your events with the associated clips one event at a time.
In other words, the workflow is create a iMovie project with same name as event in iMovie.   Move all clips from event to the project.   Sent the project to FCP.   Create an event and move the clips to the event in FCP.   Tedious (not really practical) for 1000's of events!
So what if I want to abandon all my iMovie events and associated meta data.   How do I just import all of the clip files buried in the iMovie folder short of Show Package Contents and drilling down to each .MOV file?
-- Mark

IMovie for Mac: "iMovie cannot open files in the "iMovie for iOS Project" format."

Question, asked professionally
When will iMovie for Mac be able to open iMovie for iOS projects?
Question, asked snarkily
Any reasonable expectation that we will ever be able to edit projects--created in iMovie on our fancy new expensive phones--in iMovie on our fancy new expensive laptops?
Specs
iPhone 6 Plus (contract-free, 128 GB)
iOS 8.1.2
iMovie for IOS 2.1.1
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid-2014)
OS X Yosemite 10.10.1
iMovie for Mac 10.0.6
Error Messages
iMovie for Mac: "iMovie cannot open files in the "iMovie for iOS Project" format."
iMovie for iOS: "An error occurred during export."
Frustration
Manufacturer: Apple (a multibillion dollar company)
The year: 2015
Hours lost: Three Weeks
Total costs for both devices: $4,000
Background Details
I just wasted thousands of dollars on these two hardware devices by making the rookie mistake of assuming projects were compatible across iMovie applications. However, the exported .iMovieMobile project files are in an incompatible iMovie for iOS Project format that iMovie for Mac cannot import. So I am stuck with a 15 GB .iMovieMobile project file--for an hour-long+ video--that I created and I was editing on my iPhone for weeks that I can no longer edit on my iPhone due to an error, nor potentially rescue the lost hours on my Mac, the sole reason I purchased it one day ago. The reason I can no longer edit the project on the iPhone is because iMovie for iOS suddenly stopped displaying the video of the project in preview, external display, etc. The clip snapshots remain visible and the audio remains audible, but the video appears fully black. Any attempt to export the video at any resolution generates an error message. (This error applies only to this project; other projects export without issue.) I can save to and from iTunes or iCloud without issue, but import into iMovie for Mac is unavailable for this latest version. Deleting and reinstalling the app does not resolve the issue. Nothing has resolved this issue; so I purchased the Mac as a last attempt, and it appears that I will have to begin the meticulously painful process of recreating the video from scratch with all the titling, sound effects, precise edits, transitions, organization, etc. This video was to surprise my mother for her birthday with "this is your life" footage, including my late father. It may seem like a small first-world problem, but such things carry big emotional impacts. What began as such a wonderfully intuitive and joyful experience has descended into a soul-suffering nightmare of catastrophic proportions. This software grinch stole christmas.
Likely Suspect
I believe this originated from Apple's confusingly designed iTunes client that removed videos used by iMovie for IOS during a sync, which I successfully restored back to the iPhone. This apparently resulted in iOS seeking and then claiming to find all of the videos, but somehow a bug in the coding causes the audio to play but not display video, and no way to resolve the bug from an enduser standpoint. I was hoping that iMovie for Mac would allow me a workaround, but I'll never know because the iOS and Mac formats are currently and dishearteningly incompatible.
Suggestions
I never performed a full backup of the iPhone, but I don't believe any of the iCloud nor local backups actually backup iMovie projects themselves anyway. (That's a fail.) So one must back them up manually to iTunes or iCloud.
MANUALLY BACKUP YOUR PROJECTS DAILY, IF NOT HOURLY.
MANUALLY BACKUP YOUR PROJECTS BEFORE IMPORTING OR SYNCING FROM ITUNES.
MANUALLY BACKUP YOUR PROJECTS BEFORE IMPORTING VIDEO CREATED OUTSIDE OF YOUR IOS DEVICE.
Resolutions
Hope Apple fixes this problem soon? Perhaps.
Return the Mac to Apple, if they allow? Perhaps.
Someone in this community will provide a magical workaround--that I haven't already attempted? Perhaps.
As unlikely these options may be, I shudder to imagine that I may be forced to suffer no resolution and $3,000+ completely down the drain, because if iMovie for IOS worked as intended, I wouldn't have ever purchased the Mac as a last ditch effort to rescue the project. It meant that much to me to surprise my mother by attempting to retrieve this project file from oblivion--but to no avail.

I appreciate you taking the time to copy and paste boilerplate responses to increase your points in this forum, but I've already read all those support articles in depth; but you have barely read my post at all. Please don't guess a fix. Only someone with the latest versions of iMovie, iOS, iPhone, Yosemite, and MacBook Pro is qualified to troubleshoot this, because anyone would immediately see that the following option no longer exists:
Open iMovie on your Mac, and choose File > Import > iMovie for iOS Project.
Read my post before you reply: It clearly says in the title and within my post that I can neither export nor import through iTunes without receiving an error message. So your response neither solved my question nor helped me whatsoever.

IMovie HD saved project in older version of iMovie. Now can't open/find it

Working on an iMovie HD slideshow. Saved it although had a warning that older versions could not open it. Since I only have iMovie HD, I assumed no problem. Now I cannot open the file. Received WARNING
' The project “___” was saved with an older version of iMovie. Opening it in this version will cause it to be upgraded, which will make it unreadable by older versions. ' Seems like my project was moved to iMovie Trash.
Questions:
(1) Can I retreive my project? If yes, how?
(2) What happened to my IMovie HD and how do I get it back?
Appreciate your help.

Sorry I misunderstood about there being a conversion, Steve.
Let's back up a bit. There are some things here that sound very strange, including that the project contains no project file with a tilde in its name.
Were you ever able to save the project successfully? If so, iMovie should have created a tilde file as a backup to your project file "aaa.iMovieProj". If the tilde file doesn't exist, that suggests there's some underlying problem that's causing a failure to save the project to disk.
Let's set aside that project for a moment. Use iMovie to create a new project on the same disk. In the Finder, choose Show Package Contents. (There will be no tilde file in the package for the project hasn't yet been saved.)
Drag the file "aaa.iMovieProj" onto the TextEdit icon in the Dock. The first few lines should look like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
Is that what yours looks like?
Close the TextEdit window containing the project file. Back in iMovie, save the project. Now a tilde file should appear inside the package.
Did iMovie save okay? Did the tilde file appear?
Try adding images to this project, then save. Did it save okay?
Quit iMovie. Re-launch iMovie. Did the project open successfully?
The only possible cause that occurs to me is that the disk the project resides on isn't formatted correctly. iMovie requires the Mac OS Extended disk format. If you are storing the project on an external disk make sure the disk has the proper format. More about that here:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1852869#1852869
You might also try discarding the iMovie preference file "com.apple.iMovie.plist", located in the Username/Library/Preferences folder. Be sure to quit iMovie before trashing it.
Karl

In the iMovie 11 event library, how can I get the iPhoto video clips to combine with my camcorder pics listed below and in chronological order?

In the iMovie 11 event library, how can I get the iPhoto video clips to combine with my camcorder pics listed below and in chronological order?

Try forcing iPhoto to load the Library on the External Hard drive by launching it while holding down the Option key. Choose the Library on the External HD, and quit iPhoto, see if iMovie can see the Library with the iPhoto Videos contained inside.

How to duplicate Events/Projects with only Proxies.

I'm on a MBP Retina, with 500GB SSD. Running Mountain Lion and FCPX 10.0.5.
I have a 3TB Seagate drive.
I encoded all my footage to ProRes 422 first, then imported that as original media into my current Project. That footage is over 1TB in disk space.
I then created Proxies of all that, and am pleased at the performance, and file size of the proxies.
Now I want to copy my Event/Project to a smaller drive that only has 400 GB available (I measured my Proxies footage folder and it's only over 100GB. So plenty of space).
I've viewed tutorials on the dangers of duplicating in the Finder, and that everything must be duplicated or copied within FCPX.
So my question: How can I take my current Event/Project and Proxy versions only, and go home and edit, and then come back to the office and move my updated Project file and relink and keep moving with my bigger versions stored on my 3TB drive? What's the step-by-step?
Thanks,
Chris.

Here is a possible way to go about this:
Duplicate (or move) all projects to the backup drive. Duplicate the event to the backup drive.
Click on each copied project from the backup drive (you don't need to open its timeline), go to the Inspector and click on "Modify Event References". There you will get a list with two events (the one on the original disk and the copy you just made). Move the new copy to the top an click ok. Now your projects will reference the versions of your clips in the copied event, and you can safely delete the originals.

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