Lost projects in iMovie
I have done 12 projects but program show only 9. In what problem? Where I can find other 3 projects?
To tacred, I went to a One to One session and was informed all my movies were still on my computer under the old version if iMovie. That old version is still functional. Check there first, the star icon is a different color. Once you have moved the video over to the new iMovie, there's no going back. The Creative that I spoke to is really an expert and says the new iMovie is very good and a great improvement. If you have questions, you can always make a genius bar appointment, but descibe your purpose when making the reservation, so the store you go to will assign a creative to assist you for the 10-15 minute session. Have your questions ready!
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Help with recovering lost project in iMovie '09
Thank you in advance for your help! I may have accidentally deleted a very important rcproject in my iMovie project folder. I've searched using Finder. I even downloaded Stellar Phoenix in hopes of finding the project. No luck so far. Is there any other tricks to find missing projects in iMovie '09?
Check to see if it is in the Trash ( at the far right of the dock). If it is, drag it back to the Movies/iMovie Projects folder.
Better yet, if you are running time machine, go back in time and bring a copy of the rcproject file back. -
Help! Lost project in iMovie 10.0.2
Working on project iMovie 10.0.2, "Quit" window popped up said start-up disk almost full. Lost entire project before I could "share" (save). Any way to recover? Re-started iMovie and tired to paste files into new project, but files are "empty."
I have the same problem. It says I have 7 projects but only displays 6. Happend after using Voice over recording.
All movie clips are still there, just not all my editing info. -
Please help! I exited iMovie and lost my project that I've been working on for days... I am able to find it in "Finder" under iMovie Projects... but I am unable to open it as a Project in iMovie. I am using iMovie '11, with no time machine, and I'm on a MacBook Pro.
I fully sympathise with you, as I recently experienced the same issue (as have many others).
Projects always appear as normal in Finder in the Home folder Movies/iMovie Projects (or on an external disk at the top level in Movies/iMovie Projects). Nothing looks untoward there.
However, when iMovie is opened again after an editing session, the most recent project worked on does not appear in the listing of projects in iMovie's Project Library - although it is still listed in the Finder folder . This happens for no apparent reason - no unexpected quits, freezes, or crashes, and nothing else out of the ordinary. iMovie is simply not recognizing the project. It can't even be opened by double-clicking on the project in Finder.
Here are a number of links to other topics on this issue (there may be others I've missed):
https://discussions.apple.com/message/21370074#21370074
https://discussions.apple.com/message/21297057#21297057
https://discussions.apple.com/message/21296973#21296973
https://discussions.apple.com/message/21157327#21157327
https://discussions.apple.com/message/21177008#21177008
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4748933?start=0&tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/message/21157079#21157079
Sorry to bombard you with all these links, but as you will see there are others here reporting the same problem. No solution has been forthcoming unfortunately.
Be sure to provide feedback to Apple - in iMovie's menu click on iMovie > Provide iMovie Feedback, then complete the online form.
John -
IMovie crashed, lost project. How do you SAVE in iMovie? Where's the file?
Just spent 4-5 hours building a complicated movie from a year's worth of footage. At some point, iMovie crashed. I think I lost all those hours of creative decision making, since I cannot see the file when I reopen iMovie.
There is no "open" command in the file menu. There is no "save" command in the file menu.
This would imply that Apple was autosaving for me to save me trouble. Hmm. I can save in almost every program I use, and revert, and save versions.
How do you save a project in iMovie? I don't see save in the file menu, as has been the steadfast tradition of Apple applications since I purchased my first Mac in 1984. What in the blazes have you done with SAVE? It is so basic.
Along the same line, where is the project file located on my hard drive? I would like to open it. Since I assume you have been autosaving to somewhere, could you please let me know where my file is saved.
<Edited by Host>This just appeared to happen to me too. I tried clicking on the file in Movies/iMovie Projects. That didn't work.
Then, I made a copy of the file in a safe place. I noticed it was 2.2 MB, so something had to be in there. Next, I started iMovie and clicked the Project Library arrow. The project was listed there. I opened it and got back most but not all of the work. It lost a lot of my audio changes. Here's the thing. I worked until about midnight, and then left iMovie up and running til noon. You would think it would have autosaved the changes by the time I came back. I suggest making your own copy of the file now and then, just in case. -
I've done a project on iMovie, after it finished finalising, i just closed iMovie, now i think i've lost all my work because i can't find it and when i found it, the movie was just black - please help
Hi
More info please
• Free space on - Start-Up (Mac OS) Hard Disk ? How much ?
• Any other hard disks connected ? Formatted as ?
Yours Bengt W -
I lost my my project in imovie!!!!!
I lost my my project in imovie!!!!! found the file (.rcproject) in my finder but I cannot open it!!!
What happen???Move the .rcproject into your imovie projects folder.
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Lost my project in iMovie 10.0
I have OS 10.9 and iMovie 10.0.
I updated projects on opening the new iMovie - worked on the project,
shared to iTunes and Theater and all was good. When I opened iMovie again all that remains is the sound files- NO video clips.
The old projects are in the 'iMovie' folder along with an empty 'UpdatedToiMovie10' folder.
What do I do now and if starting over how do I import the old project to iMovie 10???ah! this solved it.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/23557918#23557918 -
Lost Project: Ended up with "iMovie Temporary Items" folder
Worked on a new project; left for about an hour; came back to see the project was gone; all that was left was a "iMovie Temporary Items" folder
The folder's contents:
-Folder (Project Name)
-Project document
-QuickLook
-Thumbnail.jpg
-Thumbnails
Anyone know how I can get the original project back into iMovie09...?
It is currently on my desktop.
Thanks!Unfortunately, I have the same problem, but can't seem to fix it. I was editing a movie project that was a long slide show of photos (200-300). I made it a few months ago. Made some changes and about 40 minutes into working on it, iMovie just quit and I got a dialog box saying a volume had been improperly removed, which is odd since I'm working on this on the main system drive.
I restored the project file from Time machine. I double click on the project folder, iMovie opens, I see all my pictures in the top left window and then they disappear.
Since installing Snow Leopard, I've also had problems with Light Room crashing complaining that my catalog is corrupt.
/Chris -
I have a finalized project in iMovie '11. Shared it on Youtube, Facebook, and Vimeo. Then, when I shared it to iDVD, it reverted to a previous version of the project, so my titles and pictures were out of sequence. Now, in my list of projects, my project is there, but finalized as the previous version which is all out of sequence. My true final project is now gone! What happend?
I didn't notice this problem until after the DVD was burned in iDVD. Then, when I played the DVD in a public setting, I was a bit embarrassed by what played.Hi
My first thoughts are
• iMovie ill behaving - Trash the iMovie pref file - use to set things right
• in reg. to Photos - Did You change iPhoto Photo Library - Then iMovie get's lost as it peeks into iPhoto on start up to see where photos are stored. Set iPhoto back to first Photo Library (when iMovie is not running) then start iMovie.
Yours Bengt W -
a project on iMovie 09 that Freezes(only the project) the viwer window blocked in gray ... .. After editing that took me a year I'm stuck .
All my finished projects that are in the Library infected with the same symptoms and it happens only after I went into the problematic project.
I tried to open a new project and everything works
...I also tried throwing Recent Files, in the past It solved the problem ,not this time ...
the problem is that this project will take me a long, long time to rebuild
imovie 09
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac10,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 3.06 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHzThis recently happened to me. I am a novice, but it seemed like that project got corrupted some how.
I deleted it.
Went to time machine and picked it up again when I knew it was working ok.
I lost a few hours of work, but not the entire project.
Once I had the project back from time machine, it worked fine (but like I said, I lost a little bit of work). -
How to copy project from iMovie 11 to iMovie 10?
I get confused on iMovie naming, so let me start with this: I have projects and clips in the old version of iMovie, iMovie 11. When I click on iMovie > About iMovie, it shows the version as 9.0.9. I will refer to this as iMovie 9.
I also have the projects and clips in the newer version of iMovie. When I click on iMovie > About iMovie, it shows the version as 10.0.3. I will refer to this as iMovie 10.
I want to copy a project (the set of video clips. audio clips, titles and transitions) from iMovie 9 to iMovie 10. Can someone explain how to do this?
With the recent update of iMovie 10, a number of my projects now appear as "Missing File". They appear to have been corrupted or lost in the upgrade. i still have the original projects in iMovie 9, but do not know how to copy them over to iMovie 10.
I do not want to do a mass replacement of projects in iMovie 9 to iMovie 10, as some of the projects in iMoive 10 have been edited with newer content. I want transfer selected projects form iMovie 9 to iMovie 10.
Any help is appreciated ...pomme4moi wrote:
I get confused on iMovie naming, so let me start with this: I have projects and clips in the old version of iMovie, iMovie 11. When I click on iMovie > About iMovie, it shows the version as 9.0.9. I will refer to this as iMovie 9.
iMovie '11 (as in 2011) is version 9. The new version iMovie is version 10. Yoou see it sometimes refferred to by Apple as iMovie (2013).
I want to copy a project (the set of video clips. audio clips, titles and transitions) from iMovie 9 to iMovie 10. Can someone explain how to do this?
I do not want to do a mass replacement of projects in iMovie 9 to iMovie 10, as some of the projects in iMoive 10 have been edited with newer content. I want transfer selected projects form iMovie 9 to iMovie 10.
Projects and Events cannot simply be copied from version 9 to 10, the files themselves must be updated. Unfortuantely, Apple only offers an all or nothing method for doing the updating as described here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6012?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
iMovie 10 will only update the contents of the iMovie Projects an iMovie Events Folders used by iMovie 9. So you could get an external hard drive and use iMovie 9 to move all the Projects and Events that you don't want to update to version 10 to the external.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ph2289
Disconnect the external drive and run the updating from iMovie 10.
However, it may be just as easy to update everything and then delete any Projects or Events you don't want in iMovie version 10.
Matt -
When I go to create a new project in imovie using the iPhone 5, I am not able to see any of my video clips or photos that are saved on the device.
When you move or copy the compound clips with their events into an external drive all the events should be there. Not clear on why you want to move them into a single event. You can drag and drop from one event to another.
Why are you using compound clips? You can simply copy the project from each machine with used media onto the external drive and that should do it. -
How to stop the spinning ball/pizza that is stalling repairs to project on imovie 09? on macosx10.5.8 using iomega and superspeed ext h.d. as storage for the events and projects archive of a wedding video that has had audio sync problems on all share formats (iDVD, mp4, and last of all iTunes). The project label now carries signal with yellow triangled exclamation “i tunes out of date”.
To solve the sync problem I’m following advice and detaching sound from all of the 100 or so short clips. This operation has been stalled by the spinning ball. Shut down restart has not helped.
The Project is mounted from Iomega and superspeed ext hd connected to imovie09 on macosx 10.5.8.
What to do to resume repairs to the audio sync problem and so successfully share for youtube upload?How to stop the spinning ball/pizza that is stalling repairs to project on imovie 09? on macosx10.5.8 using iomega and superspeed ext h.d. as storage for the events and projects archive of a wedding video that has had audio sync problems on all share formats (iDVD, mp4, and last of all iTunes). The project label now carries signal with yellow triangled exclamation “i tunes out of date”.
To solve the sync problem I’m following advice and detaching sound from all of the 100 or so short clips. This operation has been stalled by the spinning ball. Shut down restart has not helped.
The Project is mounted from Iomega and superspeed ext hd connected to imovie09 on macosx 10.5.8.
What to do to resume repairs to the audio sync problem and so successfully share for youtube upload? -
How do I find the size of a project in iMovie '11?
I want to know how much memory a project in iMovie is using on my hard drive. How do I do that?
In iMovie 9, look in your iMovie Events and iMovie Projects folders.
In iMovie 10, look in your .imovielibrary package (right click & select "Show package contents")
The default location of these is in your Users / ,user name> / Movies folder.
Geoff.
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