Imovie 3 disaster

Just reading the posts in this forum, I had a big ah ha, but don't know how to fix it.
I was running 10.2.8 with imovie 2 with no problems. This fall, upgraded to 10.4.8 which apparently wrote over imovie with version 3.03. didn't use it till yesterday, ran into so many problems, going crazy. Is imovie 4 available for upgrade, and how do I get version 2 back in the system.
thanks

F Shippey,
I doubt Tiger would have installed iMovie 3.
Well to compound the issue "flexmarketman" states he upgraded 10.2.8 to 10.4.8 and encounter the well documented problems after iMovie 3.0.3 was installed by SoftwareUpdate over iMovie 2.xx.
Well, by using the great advice in this forum I was able to solve the problems. For those interested here were the issues.
iTunes
- The OS update corrupted the preference list (it worked fine in OS 10.2.8)
- Solution -- delete the plist file for iTunes
iPhoto
- The OS update corrupted the iPhoto library (it worked fine in OS 10.2.8)
- Solution -- rebuild the iPhoto library
iMovie
- The OS updated caused SoftwareUpdate to download and install an "improved" iMovie 3.0.3
- iMovie 3 was a seriously flawed version of iMovie that does not properly render photos the way version 2 did
- Solution (not yet done) -- Reinstall OS X 10.2.8 to roll-back to iMovie 2.x then upgrade operating system to OS X 10.4.8 then let SoftwareUpdate upgrade all other software except iMovie.
Entire thread can be viewed here.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=3927455#3927455
Hey, maybe my SoftwareUpdate theory is still alive(but only applicable to Tiger).
Well I gotta go now. The Colts and Patriots are in the 3rd quarter.
How bout those Bears. Go Chicago

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Date/Time:
2013-08-02 23:48:24 -0500
OS Version:
10.7.5 (Build 11G63b)
Architecture:
x86_64
Report Version: 9
Command:
iMovie
Path:
/Applications/iMovie.app/Contents/MacOS/iMovie
Version:
9.0.9 (1795)
Build Version:   2
Project Name:
iMovieApp
Source Version: 1795000000000000
App Item ID:
408981434
App External ID: 15340117
Parent:
launchd [120]
PID:
1184
Event:
hang
Duration:
2.60s
Steps:
27 (100ms sampling interval)
Pageins:
0
Pageouts:
0
Process:
iMovie [1184]
Path:
/Applications/iMovie.app/Contents/MacOS/iMovie
Architecture:
i386
UID:
504
Thread 0x3dd6
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Hi
Yes this can be many things - and I can only guess/suggest.
A. a very common origin to make the Mac un-happy is to - PANIC-HALT - when the round multicolored thing appear.
So much can go wrong by doing this - and if done often problem builds up that can result in a real disaster.
B. NEVER - move or alter any folder named - iMovie Event's resp. iMovie Project's - as iMovie has no search function - moving them results in that iMovie get's 100% lost.
One can move them - but this HAS TO BE done within the iMovie application (as it is up and running)
C. preference files - there are TWO or more Libraries on Your Mac. First and easy to find is the one You see when opening Your Start-Up Hard Disk window = Root Library == the WRONG ONE
What we need to find is the one in Your User-Account folder (icon as a house) - and this is in Mac OS X.7, X.8 and X.9 HIDDEN. To see it do:
( It can be done like this: Open Terminal, then enter:
chflags nohidden ~/Library
Press return, then restart, and it will always be visible until the next major update, when you do the same thing again. )
or - do like this.
On the Finder window at the top left of the screen,
Hold down the Option key and clicked on Go.
This allowed You to see the Library folder and select it.
Then keep the Option button pressed down in order to see and select the Library folder.
Once found it, You are able to navigate to the iMovie preferences file and move it to the trash. iMovie then start’s up fine!
Now here in Your User Library - find Preferences and trash
com.apple.iMovie.plist
com.apple.iMovie3.plist
com.apple.iMovie7.plist
com.apple.iMovie8.plist
com.apple.iMovie9.plist
com.apple.iMovieApp.plist
and find
com.apple.iApps.plist
While iMovie is NOT RUNNING - move this/these file/s out on to desk-top.
Now restart iMovie.
I Prefere another way to find out if this is the problem.
(after all folders (iMovie Event/Projects are moved into original place)
• go up to Apple Menu
• Down to System Pref's
• Select Accounts - Create a new User
• Go down the Apple menu - Log OUT
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Does it work at all ? (Yes You don't see Events or Projects in Your original Account just now)
If so - Then we know that there is a corrupted pref file to be trashed.
Else - the problem are much more severe.
D. After Panic Halt / Forced Quit - I always do -. to keep disasters on arms length.
• Repair Permissions (Apple Disk Util tool)
• Start from other HD or DVD - then run Repair Hard Disk (Apple Disk Util tool)
Yours trying to be of help - Bengt W

I am trying to update iMovie to version 9.0.8

Hi
I am trying to complete the update to iMovie version 9.0.8 on Mountain Lion.
The problem is that in my country the available bandwidth is not good and the download from the App Store is so slow that the download takes 16 to 20 hours.
When the download reaches the high 90% mark the Appstore reports that the downbload has failed and I have to start all over again.
This has happened three times now, and I have given up on the App store.
I navigated to the Apple Download site and downloaded the file without any problems. Like we all used to do prior to Mointain Lion.
It took approx 8 hours but it downloaded fine.
The problem is when I try and install the app from this file I get the following error.
Alert
The version of iMovie installed on this Mac must be updated through the Mac App Store. Check the Mac App Store to see if an update is available.
Question: Please tell me there is a way to overcome this Alert and force the file to install.
The use of the App Store for updates to the MAC on Mountain Lion is a disaster in my opinion.
More often than not the App Store insists that new updates are available despite the fact that you have just completed installing the very same updated versions.
I hope someone at Apple is listening bercause this new method of update delivery is not working for a lot of people.
I am strongly considering reverting back to Lion, as this

This may help, it allows you to reset the application, it also may be worth clearing out the app store cache and temp files.
http://www.ryanragle.com/index.php?/site/comments/where-does-the-mac-app-store-d ownload-temp-files-to
To contact Apple use the feedback form, this is a user forum and I don't think they will respond here.
regards

IMovie project corrupt after crash?

I have a problem with a seemingly corrupt iMovie project
I have been working on a holiday movie for over 12 hours
Today, my macbook pro crashed while editing the project
Aftwards I was unable to load the project.
Other, older projects can still be loaded with iMovie.
I suspect the project has been corrupted due to the crash.
I don't have any back-ups (Time Machine is not activated)
Are there any other ways to fix the corrupted file or is it permanently damaged and won't I be able to open it again?
Thanks for your help and insights!

I'm new to iMovie, and to the Mac, and for years I have heard about how wonderful the Mac is. While it doesn't have the same problems as a PC it has plenty of its own problems.
I just spent 20 straight hours putting together a movie in iMovie. As I clicked to make my very last tweak to my project, iMovie crashed.
I tried to get a hold of Apple support but their system doesn't allow access to an actual human being. Their system make you go through a series of steps to "arrange for a phone call from Apple". That system fails EVERY TIME. I get to the end and a messages pops up saying that they can't help with my problem at this time, try again. I've had a Mac for three months now and their support system fails every, single time.
So, on to the problem at hand. As I read the various forums about iMovie it has struck me as rather odd that no one seems to have a problem with the engineers at Apple creating a software package that does not allow you to save your work. Now, it took me all of a nano second to realize the likely out come of such stupidity. And, on my very first big project my prediction came true. iMovie crashed as I finished my project and destroying all of my work.
So my first question is, how could the engineers at Apple possibly justify not including a "save" and "save as" function to iMovie? The absurdity of this reaches new heights. This has disaster written all over it. And it appears that many people are having the same problems.
Secondly: I've read messages from people who seem to think that not having a "save" or "save as" function was a brilliant stroke of genius. OK, so this question goes out to those people. If it is so brilliant then please explain to me how I can recover my last twenty hours of work? If there had been a "save" function I would have been saving my project all along the way and I would only have lost the last half an hour or so and not the entire 20 hours.
So, tell me. Precisely. Step-by-step. How do I recover my work.

Is there any software that will delete video after I crop in iMovie

Ok, I've spent days reading posts and googling for answers. I'm ready to spend $$ if I need to. We're all aware of how iMovie won't let us delete unwanted video. I'm trying to fix a wedding video some hack did in SVHS. I got it from DVD to Video_TS to DV using MPEG Streamline and imported the video clips to iMovie. (By "video clips", I am mean the DV files.)
There are 7 DV files from a 69-minute video. I am creating tons of smaller "clips" from these DV files - like 5 to 15-second clips - because I want to use transitions in between them.
My understanding of what's happening in iMovie as I do this is as follows:
- Let's say I begin with the first DV file that is 1.9 GB, about 10 minutes long.
- I create a 10-second clip from that by (a) selecting my start and end points, (b) clicking Edit>copy, (c) clicking on the clip pane, (d) clicking Edit>paste.
- Now I have a new 10-second clip.
- But! I also have 1.9 GB of unused video behind that clip, right?
- I repeat the process maybe 30 or 40 more times until I've edited the original 10-minute DV file (clip) and what do I have?
- Do I have 40 10-second clips each with 1.9 GB of unwanted video behind it??
As I said, with 7 DV files at 1.9 GB each that need to be sliced into multiple clips for transition effects, etc, this will shut down my MB quick. I've only done this with 3 DV files so far and I have 12 GB of HD space left. I will obviously not be able to finish the project this way. What a disaster!
So here's the million dollar question -- Is there ANY 3rd party software that will allow me to slice these DV files into small clips and permanently delete the unused video?
I don't care if I use something that "replaces" iMovie or something that works with iMovie. Like I said, I'm ready to spend the money to save the time, disk space, and aggravation. Note I worked in video production (many) years ago so I'm not afraid of something "technical" (editing concepts aren't new to me). However, I'm far from being an expert on what's out there these days.
I should also note that the original wedding video (DVD) did not have any chapters or anything of the sort. The ONLY way I can edit this is to import the entire file as it was converted to DV. It's not like I can import only the video I want to use. I hope that makes sense. I do not have access to the source video either - only this pathetic DVD he calls a wedding video.
Thanks in advance so much for any help. I never would've gotten this far without all the posts!
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- Do I have 40 10-second clips each with 1.9 GB of unwanted video behind it??
Not to worry. When we Copy and Paste within a project, iMovie HD creates a new clip thumbnail for the Timeline/Clips pane, then simply adds a new pointer to the source video. The source material is not duplicated.
When you Copy a clip and Paste a clip to a DIFFERENT project then Yes, the clip's entire source video file is duplicated. (When Copying between projects, be sure to Copy and Paste all the clips together so iMovie duplicates the source files just one time.)
Next time, you might consider setting your iMovie 6 preferences to limit the length of imported clips to 3 minutes — or whatever duration you want. Then each imported clip will have its own source file. When you discard an entire clip its file will be discarded too, shrinking the size of the project.
If you have no need to preserve the clips as clips you could export the project to a Full Quality movie that you import to a new project. Everything will arrive as a single clip, which may be okay here. Then discard your old project. The project will be smaller, containing just the stuff on the Timeline.
If the Timeline contains most of the source material — just split into small clips — there may not be a lot of "extra" material in the project. To get an estimate of how large the Timeline really is, open the "Timeline Movie.mov" that's inside the Cache folder of the project in QuickTime Player. QT Player's Show Movie Info window will show the size of the material it represents.
Karl

How do I lock Audio clip at playhead in iMovie

Hi,
I have been using iMovie HD for years. Great program. Finally had to move on to iMovie 10. What a total disaster that is. I have a myriad of issues with it, as does everyone else, but right now I am trying to figure out how to lock an audio clip at the playhead, as one essentially needs to be able to do for even pretty simple home movie edits. Am I being stupid or has this functionality been entirely removed by some genius Apple programmer? Why do I get the feeling that what used to be a brilliant and intuitive piece of software has been completely eviscerated to the point of uselessness?
Any ideas? Thanks
Richard

Richard Weston-Smith1 wrote:
Am I being stupid or has this functionality been entirely removed by some genius Apple programmer?
No, it's not been removed. You just need to drag your audio clip to the right place.
In your case, you want to drag it directly to the timeline and not to the background music well below the timeline.
Some more information here:
http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/#mov91a895a64
Matt

IMovie no longer working.....weird anomaly just before......

I was transferring some videos from my camera. The iMovie ap shut down during transfer. When I started it again it worked for a bit....
I then tried to download the camera videos again. It would not let me use the same event name...i use the date....it said it was already used(today) I then tried to use the date when videos were taken....also said was already used...use another.
thing is they dont exist on the side panel showing event library...
no biggie....
a bit later my screen (iMac 27") turns into a massive strobe light....and my second screen has artifacting going on...
tried restarting, stopping programs, etc...nothing works
needed to force power off by holding the power button
ok.....restart doing other stuff .....
finish all my other work
now to get back to getting the videos download....i start the ap....all i get is a black bar on the left.....blank white screen
only think is a clipped of import button and the other two to its right....
they dont work....
How do I delete or reinstall iMovie and keep all my videos safe?
Can I check on them with another program to see if they are trashed?
Wow.....gotta say Mavericks has been a disaster.......never had problems with previous operating system

What version of iMovie? 10, 9.0.9, or what?
Phil

How do I run iMovie 11 from an external hard drive to save space on my iMac?

I've recently bought a 1TB external hard drive (My passport) which I want to use exclusively for photos and movies.
I've already successfully transferred all my iPhoto library to the external hard drive which is now the default for iPhoto.
Can I do the same for iMovie 11.......and if so, how??
I want to regain space on my iMac's internal hard drive, as it's nearly full with mainly photos, but some movies.
(I already have a seperate external hard drive linked to Time Machine to back up everything on my iMac)
Many thanks !

Hi
It's a very good idea to use an external hard disk to take load off the Main Start-Up (Mac OS) hard disk.
BUT there are some VERY Important things to know.
A. NEVER move via DeskTop/Finder or alter any folders named
• iMovie Events - or -
• iMovie Projects
As this will result in disaster (hard to impossibly to mend)
All moving's of Events and Projects must be done Within the iMovie Application to be done in a Safe Way
B. The External/Second Hard Disk
• MUST BE - Mac OS Extended (hfs) formatted for VIDEO - UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange works for most things BUT NOT FOR VIDEO - whatever program is used iMovie or FinalCut or iDVD doesn't matter - VERY IMPORTANT ! ! !
• Should be a FireWire one as USB/USB2 performs badly to me especially when filling up. (Thunderbolt might be even better - have non to test)
BUT when reg. iPhoto Library.
• Yes it can be moved
• Yes iPhoto can be directed to find it
• BUT - iMovie can not find those out-localized iPhoto libraries (AS FAR AS I Learned up to now 12-April-03 - anyone with more insight may kindly set me into a possibly way to do this)
So I've outsource my iMovie Event's (most important as they take space) and Projects (not so important as they are very small - no movies in them only text document conducting how the Events are to be viewed) - BUT iPhoto stays - will not touch it.
Yours Bengt W

OK, many of us loaded iMovie 6, How do we get out of this mess?

Sorry, this is long. I have been working on this problem for about three weeks and reading all of the posting on this forum. Like many people on this board I THOUGHT I was upgrading to iMovie 6. WHAT A DISASTER !!! I have posted several questions to this discussion board about the individual problems that I have ran into. I have read about all the problems that others are having and talked to Apple tech support many times.
THE FIRST PROBLEM that I ran into was that since I run three monitors I need two video cards. I have a Dual 2 GHz PowerMac G5 with a ATI Radeon 9600 Pro in the AGP slot . This video card runs two of my monitors. I also have a ATI Radeon VGA video card in a PCI slot, it runs my third monitor. It turns out that the second video card is not Quartz Extreme supported. I called Apple tech support and a specialist told me to buy another Radeon 9600 Pro. I called MacMall to order the video card and their tech guy said yes that video card will fix you up.
I got the video card and found out that the G5 only had one AGP slot, I guess i should have known that. I called MacMall and after an hour or so on the phone they finally gave me an "RMA" so I could return the board. I call a second time Apple back and got another specialist, you never get the same one. He assures me that he knows what he is talking about and that I should get a Radeon 9200, that it is Quartz Extreme compatible and fits in a PCI slot. I call MacMall and talk to tech support they tell me they have the video card and it will work for me. I get the video card, install it and it is not Quartz Extreme compatible.
I call Apple, get a specialist and he tells me that Apple does not know what video cards will work. That is the responsibility of the video card manufactures to test which video cards will work in which machines. This time I am referred to an Apple web page, http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303683 , that recommends a nVIDIA GeForce2 MX video card. I have done a lot of research on the nVIDIA web site, talked to them on the phone and so far no luck at finding out which video card might work. I also called Radeon and was told that they do not make a video card that is Quartz Extreme compatible for a PCI slot.
I call MacMall and really get a run-a-round about sending the video card back to them. That was Thursday and so far I do not have an RMA to send the video card back to MacMall. I reinstalled the old video card, and of course have the same problem. However someone on this discussion suggested that I unplug the third monitor from the second video card, I did and now "Ken Burns and the other effects work. Of course I am operating with one of my monitors. I can deal with the video card incompatibility until I find a new video board. I know I am spoiled. You can see my system at: http://www.waskomtexas.com/spaceship/visit.html .
THE SECOND PROBLEM that I along with several other people on this discussion board is the "STUTTERING" of the audio. I have been working on a family history DVD project for several months. I may have started with iMovie 4, I am not sure. I have opened some of the finished movies, that I know were done in iMovie 5 and they stutter, are they corrupted by iMovie 6?
I did find that if I would drag "com.apple.iMovie.plist" out of the library to the desktop the stuttering would stop for a while, but I need to test this some more.
In summary I am shut down until I can find a way to overcome the stuttering problem. I have read how to go back to iMovie 5, sounds like a lot of trouble. Wonder if the movies that I have completed in iMovie 6 will open in iMovie 5? I should have known better than to install new software until I had read this forum. Has anyone heard anything about Apple correcting the stuttering problem? Any suggestions as to how to deal with the stuttering problem?

I really thank the people on this forum for the help and suggestions.
I opened a new movie and named it Childhood IV. I copied and pasted all of the pictures into the new movie form the original movie Childhood. Next I copied the music from the original to the new movie in the lower sound bar and saved the movie. The sound works fine no stutters. I reopen the new movie, it still plays with no stutters. I copy and paste 24 narration clips into the top sound bar. I saved the new movie and closed the movie and quit iMovie.
I reopened iMovie and childhood IV, it runs just fine. I copied 13 more clips and pasted them into the new movie and no stutters. I have several other programs running in the background, Safari, Mail, iTunes, and Address Book. I restarted my computer, opened the movie and no stutters. I also opened Mail. I opened the original movie "Childhood", it still stutters. The new one still runs with no stutters. I copied 12 more clips, I am getting a slight bit of stutter. I save it as Childhood V, I want to see if IV will reopen and run with out stuttering.
I restarted the computer and opened "Childhood V" and it has a slight stutter. I closed V and opened IV. It still sounds file.? I reopened V and added 10 more clips, I could not tell much difference, but it seemed a little worse. I closed V and reopened IV. I copied the same 13 clips into IV as I had done before to see if the problem would repeat it's self. I ran it with out saving it and no stutter. I closed iMovie. Reopened iMovie and "Childhood VI", no stutter. I copied 10 more clips into Movie VI and no stutter. I saved movie VI.
I restarted the machine and opened movie VI and it has a slight stutter. My conclusions are:
1. is that it is hard to repeat a problem and make it work the same way twice.
2. I believe that the file is good, but fore some reason it will not play back without the stutter. However, This makes it impossible to continue working on a movie, because once it starts stuttering I can not add any more narration.
3. I believe that there is something wrong with the software and hope that Apple will fix it soon. Lots of times software companies take the cake out of the oven before it is finished baking. They let us do the R&D.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can trouble shoot this more?

Saving and backing up iMovie projects

Here is a question I never dreamed I'd be asking: how do you save an iMovie "project"? Since 1984, every Mac application has had "Save" under the "File" menu where you could name and save your file. "Save often" became the main way to avoid disaster in the event of a application malfunction. Idiocy reigns at Apple; saving is no longer possible. Now I know iMovie is supposed to auto-save, but really...the Web is full of disaster stories of crashed apps and lost files.
Anyway, I want to do several things: 1.) I want to save my project so that I can open it at a later date and work on it again. 2.) Related to #1, I want to start a new project, confident that my old project is still accessible. 3.) I want to do twice daily back-ups of my working project so that if iMovie crashes I don't lose more than a half day of work.
All of this has become almost automatic in my nearly 25 years of working on Macs. File saving and backing up are one of the few constants that, until iMovie, were unchanged. Apple, in a regrettable display of poor decisionmaking, has abandoned this tried and true procedure. I really hope I'm missing something simple and I have to eat my words. Can anyone help me save my files? Thanks. By the way, no Time Machine here. I want to save these files manually.

Hi:
Michael Brown12 wrote:
Anyway, I want to do several things: 1.) I want to save my project so that I can open it at a later date and work on it again.
Quit iMovie and open it later when you want to restart your project.
2.) Related to #1, I want to start a new project, confident that my old project is still accessible.
In iMovie, menu File > New. It will open a dialog box that allows you to name your new project and set the aspect ratio you will use.
You can see your old projects by clicking the "Project Library" button at the upper left corner of the iMovie window. It will show you all your projects. You can duplicate or rename any project, as you wish, in the library. If you want to edit an older project, select it in the library and then click the button "Edit Project" in the upper left corner of the iMovie window.
3.) I want to do twice daily back-ups of my working project so that if iMovie crashes I don't lose more than a half day of work.
iMovie store the projects and project events in the folder Home Folder username > Movies > iMovie Projects and Home Folder username > Movies > iMovie Events. Feel free to back up those folders as often as you'd like. I would incorporate some kind of naming convention that allow you to readily see the date/time of your backup, but that is up to you. If you crash for some reason, you can restore the contents of the folders from your backups.
All of this has become almost automatic in my nearly 25 years of working on Macs. File saving and backing up are one of the few constants that, until iMovie, were unchanged. Apple, in a regrettable display of poor decisionmaking, has abandoned this tried and true procedure.
Well, hmmmmmmm. Most mission critical software that I know, such as QuickBooks Pro, or Filemaker Pro do not have save commands, as I guess the designers feel that it is safer to have the program do the auto-save after every change the operator makes than leaving it up to the operator to remember.
Even Final Cut Pro, Apple's flagship edit software, has built in auto-save *in addition to* the manual save commands. I have my auto-save in FCP set to every two minutes.
Hope this helps.

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