Imovie keeps getting hung up generating thumbnails for new events. How do I fix this?
I imported several movies from my miniDV camera without issue. Yesterday I tried to import another movie, only about 30 minutes long to a new event, and the "generating thumbnails for new event" has taken 12 hours and is still not complete. I tried to force quit and reopen the program it just starts the process again upon opening. I went online and downloaded and installed the imovie updates.... still no luck. I can't even use imovie now because when I open it it just goes back to generating thumbnails. Any thoughts? Im new to the Mac, and I just bought this computer 3 days ago and want to love it, but this is frustrating.
What version of iMovie 2011. Make sure you have installed all updates. There has been several updates addressing stability issues. If you have a newer system there were compatibility issues. Hopefully this will fix your issues. I have a new 2012 MBP 13 and works fine. It did lockup (pinwheel) 2x and has been fine.
After the updates running Disk Utility and repair permissions as well. Make sure things are correctly referenced.
Good luck
Brian
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