IMovie video issues and question

I am working with the latest version of iMovie and I'm having issues with my screen freezing and keep having to force quit my computer in order to get
everything back to a normal state.
I will be making a movie in imovie 10.
Everything appears fine for about 20 min.....
Then it freezes and then..... well.... see image below
I think it may have something to do with where iMovie (previous version) was set up to use an external harddrive to save and work with files...?
How do I change this in the new version?
I want to try and reproduce this issue where everything is on the internal harddrive.
My machine is
20-inch, Early 2008
Memory 4 GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Graphics ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT 128 MB
Software OS X 10.9

mmmmm.
Well I opened imovie and watched the errors and such flow on console....
It is all jiberish to me......
Did a google search on a few and well.....more over my head talk...
"CoreAnimation: warning, deleted thread with uncommitted CATransaction"
"Cannot find function pointer NewPlugIn for factory C5A4CE5B-0BB8-11D8-9D75-0003939615B6 in CFBundle/CFPlugIn"
"Error loading /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin/Contents/MacOS/DVCPROHDAudio: dlopen(/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin/Contents/MacOS/DVCPROHD Audio, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin/Contents/MacOS/DVCPROHDAu dio: no matching architecture in universal wrapper"

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My second question is in regards to my many installs. Is there any easy way to see programmes I have installed so I can remove what I don't need? I have tried pacman -Qe but I still get a lot of programmes that I haven't installed, I assume they are in the base, or base-devel group, so is there anyway I can not have these showing in my list of installed packages? I don't believe an --ignoregroup option exists when running a query with pacman like it does when installing and updating.
Lastly XBMC doesn't recognise my second screen, a projector, after I have enabled it with xrandr. Now I have found a workaround by looking on google, with wmctrl and have embedded the command in my open-box menu. This makes my XBMC believe it is windowed however instead of being true full screen. I was wondering whether anybody knows of an explicit solution instead of working around the problem.
Heres the link to the picture for GRUB, this is all I get after the BIOS: http://imgur.com/a/uhVgp
Please ignore the second picture, I thought my system wasn't updating but turns out the application I thought wasn't updating was in fact in Community-Testing, not Community, oops.
I'm sorry if these solutions can be found elsewhere, I really have tried looking around but don't believe I'm finding what I need. Maybe I'm searching for the wrong terms, I'm not too sure.
Thank you for any help.
EDIT: Minor edit, but wow I've been running Arch now for 2 weeks, not 1, time flies sometimes eh?
EDIT2: FINALLY got Arch to listen to my line-in, my Wii-U audio goes through my external sound card and I have never got it to work under Linux. Been trying for over a year for this to work, had to use Windows to listen to line in. That's one less reason to keep Windows. I love Arch, guess it's time for some Smash Bros and Monster Hunter 3U tonight!
Last edited by BradPJ (2013-06-05 15:34:28)

With regard to 'pacman -Qe' output: http://allanmcrae.com/2011/07/secondary … th-pacman/ or you can exclude some packages from that listing by using grep.
Sidenote: JFC, Allan, what have you done with your blog template??

Nokia Lumia 900 Issues and Questions

I bought my Nokia Lumia 900 last March and it's running pretty well. It's fast and reliable, although I have some issues regarding it.
1. When I'm in a conversation and I receive multiple text messages, I need to press the back button as many times as the number of messages I have received so I can go back to the menu. Not a big problem at all, but it can be quite annoying once you've already received a lot of messages and you try to go back to the messages screen.
2. I don't have the compass. When I try to download apps, it says my phone is missing some features that the app requires, which happens to be the compass. The phone's specification (on the Nokia website) says that the phone has a magnetometer, GSMArena and Wikipedia both say that the Lumia 900 has a compass.
3. It doesn't have Xbox Live. It's also included in the specifications that the Lumia 900 has Xbox Live, but when I go to Games, I only get Collection.
Issue number 1 isn't that much of a problem, but issues 2 and 3 are very disappointing. I tried searching for ways to fix these and I found an article saying that a reset will fix the compass and Xbox Live issue. I did that, and when I opened it, I saw Xbox Live on my Start Screen but when I activated my Wi-Fi, it changed to Games and still no Xbox Live there. The compass problem isn't fixed either. To those who experienced the same issues, can you please tell me how you fixed it? Thanks in advance.
Also, about the 7.8 update, I've been waiting for it for some time now and it's now available on my unit. Is it safe to install? I'm worried that if it fails it might make my phone useless. How long does it usually take?

Hi Ronio9riku,
Welcome to Nokia Support Discussions!
1. Once you received multiple text messages, can you not open one message and then press the Start button to go back to the live tiles and select Messaging again to go to the next message?
2. The phone supports compass (magnetometer). Have you tried to use the On-Device Diagnostic Tools to calibrate the Magnetomer? You can open the dialer and then input ##634#. Select Magnetometer and then calibrate the phone. Make sure that the location of the phone is On under Settings!
3. The phone supports Xbox Live which you can access on the phone by selecting Games on the start screen or by going to the App List. However, Xbox Live is not available to all countries/regions. You can visit the link for the countries/regions supported: www.xbox.com/LIVE/countries.
It's safe and recommended to update the phone whenever there is a software update offered. This improves the perfomance of the phone so why not connect your phone to your computer, open the Zune and install the update?
For more information, see this link: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/how-to/wp7/update-central
If you're asking how long the update takes, it is usually 30 minutes to 1 hour.

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I was running 10.5.x - I honestly forget where it was at version wise but it was fully updated as of Thursday the 25th of Feb. and I was getting many random horizontal "rainbow" lines in Safari (also updated to that day) and also the machine would totally lock up and need to be powered off via the power button and restarted. Also, I have an AOC 22" monitor on extended desktop and it would randomly dim like it was going to sleep and then wake up on it's own while I was working on it. I had a 1tb WD drive for almost 8 months and a fresh install as of Monday the 22nd of Feb so I doubt it was that but on a guess I swapped in my OEM 250gb drive with 10.4.11 on it and have had no issues since. I installed the widget for monitoring temps and my GPU temp with 10.5 was almost 62* C and running the same apps in 10.4 it is 50-51* C so maybe that is my issue? I was told to take it for repairs to an authorized Apple repair center BUT I can see this taking weeks to sort out and I have to run my whole life from this computer as I sell on Ebay and dread going back to Windows even for a short time. Anyone else experience this with this particular machine in 10.5? I was running 10.5 since I put in the 1tb drive with no issues up until then other than occasional horizontal lines in Safari, also I when it started locking up I was getting the same lines only thicker when playing a DVD as well. I do not push this machine as normally ALL I have running is Mail, Safari, Firefox and sometimes GarageSale and Iphoto but very rarely more than 3 of the above at one time. No gaming etc either.

I had this happen a few more times under 10.5 but it seems OK under 10.4 so I am wondering now if it is a hardware or software issue. I tried 10.5 fresh installs on 2 different drives and a fresh install of 10.4 on the original drive now in the machine so I do not think it is my install procedure and I did full updates on each as soon as install was done. I took a few pics and will post one to see if this looks like graphics/logic board issues or not. These were taken under 10.5, when this happened machine totally froze except cursor for the mouse was moving and visible. The only other action was spinning beach ball, had to hold the power button to shut it down and restart it. I had 3 apps open, Safari, Firefox and Mail so I was not exactly stressing the machine. This happens on BOTH the internal display as well as the external, the first pic is the external display, the rest the internal display.
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I'm a new user to iMovie, I tried to import a .AVI file into iMovie and I could not drop and drag the file into the edit window. Ok.. iMovie must not support .AVI files, so I thought I would use Toast 9 to convert the files to .mp4 and .mov and even tired divx format. I burned these files into the movies folder and went back to imovie and used "File" "Import movie" browsed to the movies folder but no luck the files were grayed out. But other files that were .mp4 were available for use. Has anyone seen this before? Do I need to head over to Toast help. But just now I pulled up a .AVI file from na external HD and I was able to drop and drag the file into iMovie. Going file nuts here....

The problem with the MPEG 4 export from Toast is that it writes a text track. I've used QuickTime Pro to delete that track and the MPEG 4 is then recognized by iMovie 08. (By the way, iMovie HD recognizes the Toast MPEG 4 export without deleting the text track).
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