Moving a project in iMovie
Is it possible to move a project i am doing in imovie 11 on a mac running snow leopard to an imac running mavericks to finish the project and still leave the movie on the first computer?
While we all have MacBooks in this forum not all of us use iMovie. There's an iMovie Support Community where everybody uses iMovie. You should also post this question there to increase your chances of getting an answer. https://discussions.apple.com/community/ilife/imovie
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My project in imovie says source unavailable after I moved the events to the backup drive. It is connected and shows up in the events library. I can see the pictures but they won't play without the source. What do I do.
I moved it because I did not have room on my hard drive to import my latest video. I take videos my grandkids basketball games then edit them as projects. I don't have room to move the whole events library back to my hard drive. Can I move part of it at a time.
I filled up my 1 TB back up drive so got a 3TB to move my video projects to. Do I have to move both the i photo videos and the projects to the 3 TB drive together some how. When can I delete them off the hard drive .
I moved all the i photo library to the 3 TB drive and deleted them out of i photo. That is 87 GB which I don't have room for on my hard drive.
I think when I use the export movie to my hard drive it works but will I still be able to edit it later if I want. Is it best to do quick time or i tunes if I use the export feature. -
I renamed an iMovie project, then I moved it out of iMovie to my desktop. It did not work from there. Finally I managed to move it back to iMovie, but still does not work. I can't edit it, it does not even appear as an option. I found out that the Event Folder for this Project is gone. Is this the problem? Is there a way I can get it back? Can somenone help me?? Obviously after so many mistakes you can tell I am new on this. Any help will be appreciated it!!!!!
OK Let's take a step back.
If you imported video clips from a camcorder there would be an Events folder in the Movies/iMovie Events/ folder.
You have the option as you import from a camcorder to send your Event to an external drive instead. In this case, it would be in the iMovie Events folder at the top level of the external drive.
If your project has no video clips, but only photos, there may be no events folder, only links to iPhoto.
Similarly, if your camera imported your video clips to iPhoto, and you used the iPhoto event in iMovie, then your clips are in iPhoto, and there is no separate iMovie event. -
I cannot finalize a project in iMovie, notwithstanding 175g of memory. Could this be a virus or other operating problem. Have shut down iMovie several times and moved more projects to hard drive to free up space. Help!
Hi
Error -108 memFullErr Ran out of memory [not enough room in heap zone]
Turn off - TimeMachine usually works - re-try.
(the application down in Dock)
But can mean many thing's - My first thought is
• Free Space on Start-Up hard disk. How much ? (other disks do not count)
175Gb should be enough.
Yours Bengt W -
Project in Imovie 9 Only plays back still frames, wont play video
Project in Imovie 9 Only plays back still frames
I can see all the video clips but screen just goes black while going over the video. The video is still in the computer and has not been moved around.
Also if i play the imported video on the "Event" board it plays over it with no information coming back to the computer. Like if the files were offline.
any help?
Message was edited by: Manny Figueroa
Message was edited by: Manny FigueroaHi
*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 - or rather start a new user/account - log into this and re-try
iMovie pref file resides.
Mac Hard Disk (start-up HD)/Users/"Your account"/Library/Preferences
Macintosh HD)/Users/"Your account"/Library/Preferences
and is named.
com.apple.iMovie.plist
com.apple.iMovie3.plist
com.apple.iMovie7.plist
com.apple.iMovie8.plist
and find com.apple.iApps.plist - trash this too
While iMovie is NOT RUNNING - move this 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 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
I run "Cache Out X", clear out all caches and restarts the Mac.
Yours Bengt W -
I followed the steps to import an imovie project from my iphone to imovie on my mac. However, when I open Imovie and select file, import, movies HD project, and then go to my desktop (to where i moved the project out of itunes) - I can find my project but it is in faded lettering - so it cannot be selected to be imported. Ive tried this 5 times to no avail. HELP!
It sounds like you are clicking the wrong selection in step 8 which says...
Open iMovie on your Mac, and choose File > Import > iMovie for iOS Project.
Choose iMovie for iOS Project, not iMovie HD Project. iMovie HD is an obsolete version of iMovie from 2006.
Here is a screen shot of what to look for. -
Missing Projects in iMovie 09 after upgrading to Mavericks
Using iMovie 09 (8.0.6)
Before Mavericks came out I moved (copied) my iMovie Projects and Events to an external hard drive (from within iMovie, not the OS).
Everything was where it should be and worked properly after I was done.
My first time back into iMovie since upgrading to Mavricks and now my projects are missing in iMovie. The projects are present on the external disk in the OS, but they don't show up under the external drive from within iMovie's Project Library window pane. The events are present on the external when viewed from either within iMovie or the OS.
I've found the solution to delete the UpdatedToiMovie10 file, but since I didn't upgrade iMovie, that's not an option for me.
Anybody have any ideas?I do suspect there must be some incompatibility between Mavericks and iMovie v. 8 because all was working in your previous operating system (was that ML, Lion or Snow leopard?) and the OS upgrade should not have touched your Projects folder (it is still at the root level of your external drive isn't it?.
Did you get iMovie 10 when you upgraded to Mavericks? (I suspect not because you would have needed to have iLife '11 and then you would have had iMovie 9). I am wondering whether iMovie 10 would be able to see and update your missing projects. Trouble is that would be a $15 (I think) gamble which may not pay off.
(Actually iMovie 9.0.9 doesn't launch at all under Mavericks on both of my Macs for reasons I still don't understand - for most people it works OK) but I was able to update projects to iMovie 10 and have now moved on to FCP 10.1.
Geoff. -
How to bring back project to iMovie project window?
I created a project and want to edit more later days. Meanwhile I moved the project file to another hard drive to make more space on the original hard drive.
When I open iMovoe the title of file is showing, but no content. How can I bring the project back to iMovie project window?First, move the Project back to the Movies/iMovie Projects folder on your Mac. In other words, move it back where it was to begin with.
You should now see it in iMovie and be able to edit it, unless the Event folders were moved as well. If they were moved, move them back to Movies/iMovie Events.
Now, you can move them back to the external drive and have them still work, but you need to do this from within iMovie.
Your external drive must be formatted as Mac OS Extended (journaled). FAT 32 or NTFS drives will not work.
In iMovie, click VIEW/EVENTS BY DISK. Your external drive should show up in the Project Library and in the Event Library in iMovie.
To move the Project back to the external drive, hold down the Command key while dragging the icon for the project to the icon for the external drive in the Project Library.
If you want to move the Events as well, you can right click on the Project (which is now on the external drive and select Consolidate Media... -
Import project from iMovie 10.0.1 in the Final Cat Pro X 10.0.9
How can I import a project from iMovie 10.0.1 in the Final Cat Pro X 10.0.9?
If the file before the project was in the ' Movies ' folder, now there is no such file. There's only ' Library iMove ', but no file that can be moved in the Final Cat Pro.Thanks for your confirmation! It seems to me this is the situation after tons of research.....
I really don't understand Apple's logic/philosophy now.... in the new iMovie... it takes out the keywords which is extremely important to anyone with many clips. I don't mind to pay for the expensive FCPX but I am told that FCPX cannot migrate the iMovie library..... sigh....... what **** they are thinking....
BTW, it seems the "Send project to Final Cut Pro" function doesn't support sending even the "Event". It supports only sending project with the clips associated with the project. There is no way to send the clip without associated to project. Anyone can confirm it? -
Can't import Project to iMovie
I dragged a project out of iMovie to the desktop, but can not figure out how to import it back to the iMovie event or project.
After I dragged it from iMovie, I deleted the project from iMovie but now want to import it back into iMovie.
The desktop icon ends with ".rcproject".
When I open the desktop icon, it shows Project, Proxies, & QuickLook.
When I open iMovie and try to import the project, it shows on the desktop but is dimmed.When source clip is missing, it usually means you have moved, deleted, or renamed the Event folders which are used by the Project. It could also mean that you have moved, deleted, or renamed some music or photos that were used in the project.
The solution is usually to move them back where they were.
You can think of iMovie as a database. The Project is a text file in hexadecimal that contains the paths to the event clips that are used, as well as in and out points, titles, links to music, links to photos, etc.
The physical clips are kept in the Event.
If you move stuff around in the Finder, the project does not know where to find it.
If you need to move Events or Projects, follow the instructions here.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4141
If any of that rings a bell for you, tell us more about what you did and maybe we can suggest a fix. -
Moved my projects, doomed everything that is sacred, want to nuke and reset
So being "good with computers" I often skip the obvious and try and hack the crap out of things. So, I moved my projects to an external drive using finder because they did not seem to be part of a database of any kind. Well, long story short I bashed around at top speed and now iMovie makes it as far as a beachball and that's it. It has created thumbnails and processed everything, but stops there.
WHATEVER.
I just want to vaporize it and start from scratch. I have searched around for some kind of .pref file or .db to nuke to make it forget but it seems the whole iPhoto thing is the hang up.
Any ideas how to bash it's head in and make it act as a new-born iMovie and create everything from scratch? Like how you hold down a key during opening to force iPhoto to stop screwing around and rebuild the universe?
(I will re-import the projects one by one later - I want iMovie thinking my only videos are in iPhoto like the first time it was opened, processing for 2 billion years and what have you. The projects and events are tucked away from its unholy gaze.)
Message was edited by: EricoftheNorth
Message was edited by: EricoftheNorthClear your caches and plist is about as "virgin" as it gets.
http://unofficialimoviefaq.com/tt/problems.html
I hope the external drive was formatted Mac OS extended or you are not going to be happy when you move them back.
Daniel C. Slagle
Keeper of the "Unofficial" iMovie FAQ
I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link -
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. -
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 -
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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