Imovie saves and stills duration
I'm having really frustrating problems with iMovie 11. Every time I quit and re-open the application it randomly doesn't save parts of my work. Some changes are there - others are lost for ever. This has been happening consistenly over about 5 movies now and it's beyond a joke. I know others have submitted questions about this but I have found no answers.
Also, if you place a still image in a move and specify a duration, iMovie always ignores the length of time you specify and inserts something else. So if you type in 3 it will change it to, say, 2.1 or 4.5 or 1.9. It doesn't make the editing process easy!
Grateful for any help anyone can offer.
Tony
I am using iMovie 6.0.4 (267.4) on my G4 DP 1.25 GHz, 2 GB RAM. Now when i save my 12 GB iMovie to another drive in my G4, iMovie reloads the movie that was just saved and closes the original. The reloaded 8.4 MBversion is empty. How can the reloading step be prevented?
I tried saving as, and iMovie takes about 11 minutes to save. iMovie then loads an empty 8.4 MB iMovie file. I repaired permissions and tried to save again getting the same results of loading an empty iMovie file with the same name as the saved file. I close this file and don't save.
The console log has this note:
The privileges have been verified or repaired on the selected volume
2008-03-16 17:38:01.472 iMovie HD[368] * -[NSURL initFileURLWithPath:]: nil string parameter
2008-03-16 17:42:15.508 iMovie HD[368] problem unarchiving clip:clip unarchive failed:{
class = video;
duration = 63200;
file = "Clip 14.dv";
in = 0;
mediaHandlePost = 0;
name = "Clip 14";
out = 632;
recordDate = -1013611419;
shelfX = 2;
shelfY = 2;
thumb = 0;
timeScale = 2997;
track = 0;
type = 1;
uniqueID = 99;
version = 4;
From this I see that "problem unarchiving clip:clip unarchive failed:{
class = video;
This note appears for each clip in the console log.
The last note in the console log reports:
2008-03-16 17:47:22.125 SyndicationAgent[390] WARNING: BestCalendarDateFromString - can't interpret: 'Sun 16 Mar 2008 14:32:32 -800'
Are there any ways to fix this error shown in the console log? Thanks.
Eric
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In regard to some versions of iMovie - and to ALL Video workings on a Mac
All - iMovie - all versions, FinalCut, Adobe Premiere etc etc
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