IMovie 10 won't display events and projects like previous versions

I upgraded to iMovie 10. Now I can't view an event in the upper left and the projects at the bottom. This is very critical as I'm creating projects out of home movies. I have to be able to look at an event and make sure I've used every part of it to create the projects clips from it.

I also have Jolly's problem. I found the iMovie 9.0.9 folder and tried to launch the older version of iMove. It would not launch. I removed all of the iMovie preferences from the Preferences folder, removed iMove 10 from the applications folder, and restarted my Mac. iMove 9.0.9 still won't launch and I can't access my videos created with the older version of iMovie. Is there a way to uninstall iMovie 10 and reinstall iMovie 9.0.9?
I am running Yosemitie on a iMac.
Paul

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Yes. File - Update Projects and Events. Your iMovie 9 folders will still be available. (I would not delete any iMovie 9 stuff untill you are happy with iMovie 10 - its quite different.)

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The event files you moved are fine. But by moving them outside of iMovie, you'll have broken any links to them from the Project files (which are just lists of references and instructions). You can recreate the projects using the new event files if you want.
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Hi
a. NEVER do this via DeskTop - Has to be done in iMovie'08 or 09
b. external hard disk - HAS TO BE Mac OS Extended formatted
UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange - WILL NOT WORK
(FireWire - is of *Great Value* - though USB/USB2 performs badly)
c. In iMovie'09 You can movie iMovie Projects and iMovie Events
(in iMovie'08 only iMovie Events - most important - takes most space)
d. In Events window in iMovie - top right hand corner - Here You see a small
sign eg a hard disk.
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view
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e. In iMovie'09 - same logic goes for moving of Projects
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Would I use the Share and select File to copy it to my external hard drive?
Also, I have iMovie 10.0.1, what is iMovie '11? Is this an older version?
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This stumped me, too.
Seems all the tutorials on the web (including Apple's) that explain this process using a previous iteration of iMovie.
After reading this post http://macmost.com/imovie-basics.html, I figured it out.
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Hi
You must do this the right way.
• EXTERNAL Hard disk - MUST - be Mac OS Extended formatted
Nothing else will do - for VIDEO !
• The Moving of Event's and Project's - Must be done within the iMovie Application
Folders named iMovie Event's and iMovie Project's - can not be moved via Desktop/Finder - as links back to iMovie will break and can not be mended.
My general note on this:
Moving Event's and Project's
Connection - Either connect one Mac in Target mode to the other via FireWire. Or use an external hard disk !
(Target-Mode - Start one Mac e.g. laptop - BUT keep T-key down during full up-start - Now a FW-symbol is jumping around the screen and it will work as an external hard disk when connected to the other Mac)
A. The External Hard Disk - MUST BE - Mac OS Extended (hfs) formatted to work for Video. UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange works for most other things but not for Video whatever program is used (iMovie or FinalCut)
B. Should be a FireWire one as USB/USB2 performs badly to me and especially when filling up
C. Do never Move or Alter any folder named
• iMovie Event's - or -
• iMovie Project's
on DeskTop/Finder - as this will result in iMovie losing connections to them and repair can be anything from hard to impossibly.
D. Moving and Copying must be done within iMovie application and Events to Events - and - Project's to Project's.
E. Moving Project's to Event's - Do not work for me - I have to export project as a QuickTime movie then Import this into Events.
Event's window can show two faces
Like this
or like this
from one hard disk Event - You can move it to the other hard disk
You can not (at least not me) move Event to Project or other way around only
Event to Event and Project to Project
Yours Bengt W

Events and Projects freeze in the browser window

Hardware: Mac OS X Version 10.6.8
2.53 Processor 4GB Ram
Re: IMovie 09 Version 8.06 (821)
I recently copied my entire I Movie library to my external 1T harddrive and have 250 GB of free space left on my MacHD. Once I completed the copy, I erased my library from my hard drive. Everything worked fine until...
The images suddenly froze in the edit broswer/window...across all of my events and projects. The audio works fine but all I get is still images. I tried:
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Rebooting
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Also tried some other ideas but nothing has worked. Shortly beofre this happened, I noticed the audio in many clips started to come through despite using the ducking feature. I figured out how to fix that ( which took many hours of trial and error ). If anyone can give me some pointers to fix this somehow, I'd appreciate it...GREATLY.
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A good place to ask questions and advice about web development is at the MozillaZine Web Development/Standards Evangelism forum.
The helpers at that forum are more knowledgeable about web development issues.
You need to register at the MozillaZine forum site in order to post at that forum.
See http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=25

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I would like to receive your suggestions on this working flow. (I am also interested to get some confirmation that I am doing the right way).
I use FCPX since few weeks. Coming from iMovie and FCE.
I import videos from external drive "C" on 2 different external drive "A" and "B" with settings to copy the files there.
In this way I hope orignals remain on "C"
I edit using "A" or "B" and the resulting Projects remain on the same drive.
I copy Events and Projects between "A" and "C" to keep them uptodate after some work. I do all copy with FCPX with both drives connected.
Will this workflow let me to keep Events on both drives according the latest editing ? (If I reopen each project on the same drive of its events A with A and B with B).
Then I like to group projects under folders (move not copy) again working only inside FCPX. This removes the project form the Project folder and let me to save a new version of the next editing workflow with the same project name. But if I try to save the same project again it will be renamed with extension (fcp1).
This way will bring me to a serie of projects instead of replace the previous with a new version. I would prefer to limit this to a few versions: any way ?
Last: I like to keep also a copy of projects on the main HD. Only Projects with its Render files without Events.
Will it be possible to use this Projects moving them to one of the 2 HD "A" or "B" and go on ?
Thanks for your time.

Hello Zebber28.
I do exactly as you propose doing in terms of having a 500GB Western Digital elements portable external HD which I simply connect up every three months or so on a top up basis. I don't disconnect the primary external HD while I do this as I don't need to. I simply plug into the port in the keyboard.
Just make sure you properly eject the new HD each time you use it, otherwise it's all pretty basic.
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