IMovie Question.. or screen question

I have a macbook. When I open iMovie, the window does not come. It immediately disappears into the right hand corner. The only way I can get it to come back is by opening a new project...and then when I hit create, it disappears back into the corner. I thought I might have an issue with my HOT CORNERS, but they are not even set up. Can you help me get my iMovie up. I have projects I need to finish.
Bryan Dewease,
Biglerville High School

If you have used an external monitor in the past, it may be opening there. Try VIEW menu to see if external monitor is checked.
If that does not prove helpful, I would suggest trashing the iMovie preferences file.
Complete instructions are here.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4061

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I have a 17" PowerBook G4 1.5 GHz running OS X 10.4.11.
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Hi
This seems to be a very strange problem. Can only share some thoughts.
• Free space on internal/Start-up hadr disk ? How much ?
• Have You done all normal trouble shooting things as
Deleted iMovie pref file
Repaired Permissions (Disk Util tool)
Repaired Hard Disk (Same tool but needs to start Mac from DVD or external hard disk)
• Does iMovie 4 - really run under Mac OS X.4 ? (I run Max OS X.3.9 on my PB G4 1.5GHz)
• Re-installed iMovie 4
Else see my list
*Not knowing the origin to Your problem - General approach when in trouble is as follows.*
• Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk if it is less than 10Gb should rather have 25Gb
• Delete iMovie pref file
iMovie pref file resides.
Mac Hard Disk (start-up HD)/Users/"Your account"/Library/Preferences
and is named. (one or more of these)
com.apple.iMovie.plist
com.apple.iMovie3.plist
com.apple.iMovie7.plist
com.apple.iMovie8.plist
and find
com.apple.iApps.plist
While iMovie is NOT RUNNING - move this/these file/s out to desk-top.
Now restart iMovie.
• Hard disk is untidy. Repair Permissions, Repair Hard disk (Apple Disc Util tool)
• Garageband-fix. Start it, Play a note and Close it. Re-try (Corrects an audio problem that hinders iMovie)
• Screen must be set to Million-colors
• Turn off Mac and disconnect Mains/Power for 20-30 minutes - will at least re-set FW-port
• Third party plug-ins that doesn't work OK (not relevant for iMovie’08 or 09)
• Problems in iPhoto Library can affect iMovie to crash on start-up. Re-build this first then try to re-start iMovie.
This You do by
_ close iPhoto
_ on start up of iPhoto - Keep {cmd and alt-keys down}
_ now select all five options presented
_ WAIT a long long time
• iMovie updated ?
• QuickTime updated ?
• Mac OS version ?
• Program miss-match. iMovie 4 - will not work under Mac OS X.5 Leopard
• Program miss-match. iMovie 5.0.2, up to Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK
• Program miss-match. iMovie 6.0.3 or 6.0.4, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK (will work under Leopard and Snow-Leopard)
• Program miss-match. iMovie’08 v. 7.1.4, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.5.5 - is OK (will work under Leopard and Snow-Leopard)
• Program miss-match. iMovie’09 v. 8.0.6, Mac OS X.5.8 AND QuickTime 7.6.4 - is OK (will work under Leopard and Snow-Leopard)
From LKN 1935. (in this case = iMovie HD (5), I tried it all, but nothing worked.
Your answer (above) has been helpfull insofar as all the different trials led to the conclusion that
there was something wrong with my iMovie software. I therefore threw everything away and reinstalled
iMovie from the HD. After that the exportation of DV videos (there has not been any problem with HDV videos)
to my Sony camcorders worked properly as it did before.
Lennart Thelander
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but....
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I am able to download my AVCHD footage from my Sony videocam into imovie11 (on my mac mavericks platform)....and am happy enough with using imovie as an editing program for my project. And when I am done with my "project" imovie delivers to me a MPEG-4 file. It retains HD content (1920X1080p).
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BUT
DVDs are 4.2-4.7Gb and BD-disks 24Gb (If I remember rigth) - Meaning that You only can put about 20 minutes movie on a SL-DVD.
This BD-DVD - can only be played on Blu-Ray players (no standard DVD-player playback these. Not even Your Mac unless it got a special program that can do this (but to playback true BD-disks a dedicated BD-player is a must)
AND - My BD-DVDs play back greatly on my PlayStation3 - BUT NOT ON some Cheap Samsung BD-players !
Do not know why.
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I'm trying to figure out what the key differences are between FC Pro and Express. I'm willing to endure any 'learning curve' differences, I just want to figure out if there are any features in the Pro edition that I'll never use and weigh the differences.
1. Is there any matrix you can point to that does this comparison?
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I found a comparison article here: http://camcorders.about.com/od/videoediting/a/FinalCutCompare.htm
Final Cut Express HD also gives you Soundtrack 1.5 and LiveType 2 for $299.
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