Imovie project won't allow me to do anything to it

I went to add one my last pictures to my project when imovie froze and unexpectedly quit on me. When i restarted imovie, I went to my movie project and realized that it wouldn't let me do anything to it. I can't delete pictures. It won't play the pictures and the song at the same time. I can't do anything. So I decided to try and start over but when I did that, it ended up doing the exact same thing. I have been using imovie for weeks now and have had no problem. Please help. I am using imovie 09 and am using the brand new macbookpro 17inch.

The same thing happened to me yesterday on the BB8900. Nothing works. Up[dated the software & removed the battery several times to no avail. Still hoping for a solution.

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Imovie project won't open in imovie?

I was working on my macbook in iMovie '09 on a project on a seagate external hard drive and the events was on the hard drive also. I've never had any problems with it crashing on me until this project and I just used it the day before. After 15 minutes into the project i try adding another title in and it just kept crashing from then on out when i try to add a title and preview the project in full screen.
To add to problem I unplugged the external hard drive (properly) and plugged it in my iMac imovie '11 and just added one title. Then I took the external hard drive back to my macbook and now the project won't even appear in imovie. And when i find the file itself in the hard drive and click to open it, it opens imovie but still no project. Somebody please help. I would greatly appreciated it.
It wouldn't be problem to work on it on my imac expect i have other people using it through out the day and my macbook is easier for me to work on where ever i'm at.
Please somebody say you have the answer?

I am only guessing but I suspect the problem occurs when they edit their projects on their personal Macs running Yosemite with iMovie 10.0.7. Editing (and possibly just opening) in 10.0.7 probably makes the projects incompatible with iMovie 10.0.6, the latest version that runs under Mavericks.
It would not be the first time that even minor updates to iMovie make backwards-incompatible changes to projects.
Downgrading form 10.0.7 to 10.0.6 is not at all a straightforward option so other than updating all machines to Yosemite, I'm not aware of a simple fix.
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Imovie 6 won't allow me to retrieve trash files.

It won't allow me to drag files from the trash back into the timeline. I just purchased a Macbook Pro and had this same application on my old mac and this was never a problem. Any one know what to do?

I have not had the problem that you describe. But, you might try the frequently recommended procedure of closing iMovie and then trashing the com.apple.iMovie.plist file found in user/library/preferences. iMovie will create a new file upon relaunch. Then do a permissions repair using the Disk Utility application. Those steps are easy to do and frequently will resolve problems of this nature.
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Imovie project won't import.

Hi there,
I just installed FCE and I am unable to import my imovie project. I've followed the simple instructions in the manual but I get a "wrong file" message and it won't load.
Not impressed. Garageband projects import into Logic no problem. Why not here?
Thanks in advance.
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I'm using Imovie 08 and brand new FCE fully updated.
In FCE I go to file>open> and select the imovie .rcproject. It fails to load. it reads - "file error-wrong type". Does this mean the project file is not compatible or does the project contain something FCE doesn't like. The project contains mainly jpgs and some mv4 (?) files, all of which imovie is happy with. There may be another file type I've missed. I'll check.
Where does imovie store the jpgs i've placed in the project? Perhaps I could grab them and copy. They won't copy over from imovie. sorry for rambling.
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I had just finished a long project. I went to export it. iMovie told me that their wasn't enough memory and to close the program. THis happe when making my last project. I did so and reopened it and everythign was fine.
This time however when I reopened it the project was missing from my project libaray!
Thankfully when I searched for it in Finder it IS there. But when I click to open it. iMovie opens, but the Project doesn't, nor does it apear in my in-iMovie project libaray on the side bar (though it is there in Finder).
Please help!

This has happened to me before... I opened a project I had created in a previous version of FCP in the current version, and It would crash for apparently no reason. But then I noticed though it would crash as soon as I moved the playhead to a specific part.
Turned out to be an old Motion file created in the previous version of motion, that I was using as lower thirds. I managed to delete the bad file from the sequence and thankfully everything else worked fine.
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I'm working on an iMovie project that's kind of sizeable- more than 20GB. Initially, I was storing it on an external hard drive while I worked, and things were going slowly, but I was making progress. Occasionally iMovie would freeze up while I was working (leading me to save after every single step), but I was slowly hewing the beast into shape.
Suddenly, though, I can't get the thing to open. Any attempt to do so leads to the progress bar slowly progressing (during which time I can do little to nothing else on my Mac) until it finally hits a wall and the program crashes. I decanted the file to my hard drive, but got the same result.
This project is something that I really don't want to lose! Does anyone have suggestions as to how I can get it open?

Hi
+internal drive- Free space 8.43 GB (232.57 total), same formatting (only no dual partition)+
Probably part of this problem.
I would secure a minimum of 25Gb free space to make Mac OS, iMovie and QuickTime
to run as expected.
THEN before running iMovie again do.
• Open internal hard disk (Macintosh HD - most often)
• Locate a folder named "User"
• In this find Your acount - has a small house as an icon
• In this there is a folder "Library"
• In this there is a folder "Preferences"
• In this there are file/s named
com.apple.iMovie.plist AND LIKE THIS
Move them out to desktop and NOW re-start iMovie.
Does Your project opens now after these two actions.
• Secure free space
• Delete iMovie pref file/s
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After many headaches, I'm reverting from 10.4.2 to 10.2.8. Unfortunately, all the iMovie projects I created while using 10.4 cannot be opened when I boot using 10.2. Any advice in making these new iMovie projects compatible with an old OS?
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system
Quicktime
iMovie
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I have deleted the video clips used to make an iMovie project as I thought the bits usedt were saved as part of the iMovie project. Initially the project still played post deletion. However it is no longer working as it says it can't find the video clips. Is this rescuable?
I have a very upset daughter as project took her 2 days and was her holiday memories....
Any help gratefully received
Karen

There's no harm in looking inside the Trash folder.
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*Not knowing the origin to Your problem - General approach when in trouble is as follows.*
• Delete iDVD pref file - *or rather start a new user/account* - log into this and re-try
iDVD pref file resides.
Mac Hard Disk (start-up HD)/Users/"Your account"/Library/Preferences
and is named. com.apple.iDVD.plist
While iDVD is NOT RUNNING - move this file out to desk-top.
Now restart iDVD.
• Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk if it is less than 10Gb should rather have 25Gb
• Hard disk is untidy. Repair Permissions, Repair Hard disk (Apple Disc Util tool)
• Program miss-match. iDVD 5.0.2, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.5.5 - is OK - DON’T work under Leopard
• Program miss-match. iDVD 6.0.4, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.5.5 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• Program miss-match. iDVD’08 v. 7.0.1, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.5.5 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• iDVD (08) v7 Locate theme folder. Move out iDVD1, iDVD 2 and eventually iDVD4 folders to desktop - re-try
• Try a Cleaning CD/DVD that cleans the laser lens on the DVD burner/player
iDVD 6.0.4 and iDVD 7.0.1 are compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
Last resort. from Craig. Solved the problem!! Finally!!
I deleted every iDVD application and folder from my boot drive,
emptied the trash and then installed iDVD 08 using the customize option
and I am up and running.
If You do a re-install be sure to get rid of all iDVD old parts AND then EMPTY the Trash-basket !
iDVD updated ?
Apple Codec updated ?
Start a New Clean project - or delete project assets
No of Colors - must be set to millions
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