Open iMovie 10 Project in FCP X

My son edited a movie in iMovie 10 and wanted to choose different fonts for the titles. For some reason we haven't been able to figure out, he is unable to edit the font styles as that option appears to be grayed out, regardless of which title style he chooses (reading in the Apple Support Communities, this is either a bug or intentional), so we decided to add titles in FCP X. But we can't find the project now! Where in the heck does iMovie 10 save projects?
Chris

Thanks so much! I followed that info and was able to get much of the material up in iMovie. There are still some projects that it cant find the media for, but that's not surprising. I've got files and folders spread between two different drives, in all kinds of places. iMovie shows three different Libriaries in the lefthand colum now, iMovie Library, iMovie Library 1 and iMovie Library 2.
I was able to find the main Movies folder, with its iMovie Porjects and iMovie events folder and I put them at the root level of the external.
Now I need to figure out where this new material has been stored, then find all those other folder and files and somehow get them into iMovie as well.
Eventually I'd like for the iMovie library and and all its assoicated files and folders to be stored on one of these externals Iit may be that way now...) Do you know how to check which folders and files iMovie is referencing?

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Newbie Question: Why can't I open my iMovie project in FCP?

Hello all--
I'm sure some variation of this question has been posted a bajillion times but I can't seem to find the answer. At this point I feel like a damsel in distress. Rescue me?
I've been working with iMovie for about two years now and I've recently been learning Final Cut Pro to up the ante on my videos. However, when I tried to import an iMovie project into FCP yesterday, it didn't quite work. Let me explain what I did and what happened:
1) I exported my (edited but previously unpublished) iMovie project by clicking Share>Export Final Cut XML
2) I opened FCP and clicked File>Import>XML and then selected the XML, leaving all the boxes checked
3) FCP imported the project as a sequence; however, the entire sequence reads "Media Offline" in the Canvas.
4) I clicked File>Reconnect Media and the list of offline files is overwhelming. I tried my luck by clicking "locate" and going to my imovie folders to find the clips, but even when the browser allowed me to select a clip, when I double clicked it, nothing in the sequence changed - it's all still "offline."
I really don't know much about media management, I'll admit - I'm wondering if maybe iMovie saves edited clips in a folder other than the events or originals folder - maybe the edited clips become "temporary items"? I know I have a ridiculous amount of imovie cache and temporary items and I never touch them because there are just so many of them and I don't want to mess anything up. But could the files that FCP claims to be "offline" in fact be located in these "temporary" folders? I mean, I've looked everywhere else on my hard drive and nothing is working! Sorry, I am probably just confusing myself MORE (and you), but maybe SOMEONE will know what in the world I should do
Thanks in advance.

Welcome to the family. I don't think many of us have ever used iMovie so your post might be more quickly answered in that forum.
My suggestion is to forget trying to move the project. Rebuild it in FCP. The exercise will teach you much more about your new software than fighting XML.
If you don't feel like doing that, try a smaller iMovie project, something with only two or three clips and one dissolve.
The larger issue is probably how iMovie stores its captured media which is completely different from how FCP does it. And the format is different. FCP does not, IIRC, view iMovie's default dvstream codec. You will want to export your movie clips as DV.
bogiesan
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Problems Opening iMovie Project in Final Cut Pro

We created a 12 minute Video in iMovie for a client last year (basically starting Video editing as an experiment). However because they now want a multilingual DVD version we've decided to take the plunge and invest in FC Studio, thinking it will be able to open the project and allow us to add the additional audio tracks.
However, on opening the iMovie project in FCP, a lot of the clips along the timeline are missing, and the few clips that have transferred successfully seem to have spread themselves over 5 or 6 hours with huge gaps between them.
Are we doing something wrong? Final Cut Express seems to have a seamless upgrade path, does Final Cut Pro not have this ?
We don't really want to remake the whole video in FCP if there is a way of just importing the iMovie project.
iMac 20" G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8) Using latest FCP and iMovie

Thanks everyone for your help.
I've just finished the project. As Steve mentioned I didn't actually need to add the audio tracks in FCP, in fact after adding them to Sound Track Pro and adjusting the volume I then realised they needed to be exported from there and added as separate tracks to DVD Pro. (everything has a timeline)
I used FCP to superimpose a new sequence and a logo to the top corner, I'm getting more comfortable with the programs now.
I think I've got my head around what application does what now, and have established a better work flow.
Once again thanks for your help.
PS. I get the feeling FCP is a slightly older program than iMovie or any of the other applications. The lack of live scrolling and audio wave forms (in the timeline) gives me that impression. But the whole FC studio an amazing piece of software, don't think I'll ever look back.

HT203477 Can't open my project after FCP X 10.0.7 crash

Can't open my project after FCP X 10.0.7 crash. Backup file is missing, Autosave Vault too. Pro Maintenance Tools does not fix the problem. The event and media are ok. I have crash log and CurrentVersion.fcpproject. Please help, it's very big project.

And here are the last crash logs if it can be of any help:
Plugin
This crash appears to have been caused by a plugin.
Relevant Line
0 com.apple.FxPlug.provider 0x000000011a296640 0x11a28b000 + 46656
And the next one is:
Corrupt Project
This crash seems to have been caused by a corrupt project file. You can attempt to repair the project with Project Repair, but you will most likely need to restore from a backup or autosave (note that the corruption may have spread to recent autosaves).
Relevant Line
13 com.apple.DeepSkyLite 0x0000000101958bf3 -[DSStore prefetchData:] + 437
and the next one:
Corrupt Project
Background exception: '*** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver initForReadingWithData:]: incomprehensible archive (0x62, 0x70, 0x6c, 0x69, 0x73, 0x74, 0x30, 0x30)' --> { (

Open FCExpress projects with FCP

Hi Mac friends,
I once had FCExpress. Not any more.
I´ve all FCExpress projects and all the media stored on an external FW hard drive.
Can I open this projects now with FCP and save them as new FCP Projects in order to use and preserve this works?
If so, what´s the proper way to do it?
Thank you very much.
L.

You can open FCE projects with FCP. You will not be able to open the updated projects from FCP on FCE.
Just do a "Save As..." to make a copy.

Can Final Cut Pro Open iMovie projects?

I am just curious because I have a lot of clips into a project of imovie that I wanted to use in final cut pro but I could just copy all the clips but I wanted to check in advance to see if that was possible.

You used to be able to just open iMovie 06 projects in Final Cut but Apple made it a bit more complex.
In iMovie 08, select the SHARE menu and then click on "Export Final Cut Pro XML"
Save the XMl someplace fun.
Then exit iMovie if you're finished.
Back in FCP, right-click in the Browser window and select IMPORT and then click on XML.
Navigate to find the XML you just exported from iMovie, click on it, and open it.
A new sequence is created and you simply need to load that sequence (By double-clicking).
Everything is wonderful.
Warning, do NOT use the File | Open menu sequence which can locate and open the XML because this will cause the new COLOR program to load the iMovie Project and that wasn't so much fun.

Can't open a project in FCP 7

Hello:
I can't open a FCP 7 project. Every time I try to open it, the project get stuck at 2% and then I received a notice that FCP 7 is not responding. The project is at an external hard drive. I run some tests and the drive is fine. I can open other projects that are stored in the same drive, but not that particular one.
Although I have the project back up at another external drive, there is some information that wasn't backed up and I need to retrieve it urgently.
What should I do? Could it be a corrupted file?
Thanks for your help!!
Rolando

First thing to try is resetting your preferences. The best way is using Digital Rebellion's preference manager. It's free
http://www.digitalrebellion.com/prefman/
Digital Rebellion also has a Project Repair App, part of Pro Maintenance Tools.
http://www.digitalrebellion.com/promaintenance/
There's a free trial.
If these two things fail, there may be a corrupt clip causing the problems. If you take your media drive offline and try launching the project, it may load. You can then slowly reconnect the media until you find the problem. Sometimes, just going thru this process will solve it.
You can also try an autosave version of the project. FCP automatically saves back up versions of the project as you work on it. The default interval is 30 minutes. Just do a finder search for autosave to find the folder.

Unable to open iMovie project?

I made a simple iMovie 09 project and burned it to a DVD via iDVD.
Then, to save space on my HD, I moved the project to an external HD.
Now I want to go back to the project to make some edits.   But when took it out of the external HD and placed it on my desktop, I am unable to open it in iMovie.   I've tried simply clicking on the project icon as well as doing File>Import>Movie. I also tried clicking and dragging the movie icon from the desktop to iMovie with no luck. iMovie just doesn't see to want to recognize it.
Can someone help?   Thanks?

Hi
There are so many things to this.
A. Flash drive - I even don't know if they would ever work - very doubtful
B. External hard disks - MUST be Mac OS Extended (hfs) formatted -
UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange works for most other things BUT NOT FOR VIDEO no matter if iMovie, iDVD or FinalCut is used.
C. In the folder iMovie Projects - There are NO MOVIES - but text-documents related to the projects and this document points to the Raw material in iMovie Events folder and how it is supposed to be Played/Viewed in this particular project. e.g. play Clip A from 00:00:01:13 to 00:03:45:02 and so on. So there are no movies in the project folder.
D. So if both iMovie Events and iMovie Projects folder are copied over to an external hard disk - Then the iMovie in the second Mac has no links to this and will not find it.
SO to be able to work with one project on two Macs - all moving's of Events and Projects should be done within the iMovie Application - Not on DeskTop/Finder - do not alter or move any folder named
• iMovie Events
• iMovie Projects
on DeskTop/Finder - as they can mess-up and be very hard to impossible to mend.
Yours Bengt W

Opening imovie project from external hard drive

I get this message: The project “last duly noted” was saved with an older version of iMovie. Opening it in this version will cause it to be upgraded, which will make it unreadable by older versions. Are you sure you want to open it?
How can I edit this item?

Hi Harmless - I do not think that your problem has anything to do with the external drive. Your project must have been crreated on an earlier version of iMovie - iMovie 4 perhaps, and contained in a standard folder. It can be upgraded to an HD project - best to use a copy for this, just in case....!
When you upgrade, it will firstly be converted only partially into the new version, so you have to take another step to fully convert>
Here's a comment about what should happen:
"A project created by iMovie 5 is a special kind of folder called a package. It looks and acts like a file. The package contains all the files and folders you see, but they are all hidden inside the package. To open the project in iMovie you double-click on the package.
If your project looks like an iMovie 4 folder instead of a package — so you can easily see inside — my guess is it's probably a project you've converted from iMovie 4 to iMovie 5. Converted projects do not look or act like true iMovie 5 projects. They contain the same files/folders but are stored in a conventional folder, just like iMovie 4.
That's not necessarily a good thing, for a user can get inside too easily, and open the project by double-clicking on that tilde file. If you do that, iMovie opens the PREVIOUSLY-saved version of the project. And when you next save, iMovie creates a second tilde file. Then a third, then a fourth. It's all too easy for the user to get confused, open the wrong project file and create quite a mess.
So it's a good idea, after converting a project from iMovie 4 to iMovie 5, to do a Save As to save the project into a new project. Then iMovie 5 builds a true iMovie 5 project that looks and acts like a real iMovie 5 project. Lots safer, and it works better." (as described by Karl Petersen)
So, you should experience no problems if you follow that advice - go ahead and convert!

How to open iMovie project

I created a project then moved the iMovie folder to external hard drive. Now iMovie does not recognize the project. The folder that has the project shows up in gray and unable to open.

Move your project back to the Movies/iMovie Projects folder on your internal drive.
In iMovie 08 it is possible to move Events to an external drive if you do it from within iMovie. However, projects must stay on the internal drive.
If you upgrade to iMovie 09 or 11, projects can also be moved to an external drive, but the move needs to be done in iMovie.

Opening iMovie projects

I have a question about iMovie HD 6. When I launch it, I want the screen to come up that asks if I want to create a new project, open an existing project, or make a magic movie. Is there a way to make this the default screen when I open iMovie HD6.

Is there a way to make this the default screen when I open iMovie HD6.
Nope. There was a way to force the default startup screen in iMovie 5, but not in iMovie 6.
Usually that's not a big problem, unless the project that opens by default takes a long time to load. Then you might prefer launching iMovie another way.
One workaround is to create an empty iMovie project and place that project's icon in the Dock. Place the iMovie application icon in the Dock too.
To launch iMovie to an empty project, click on the project icon in the Dock. To launch iMovie to the project you were last working on when you quit iMovie, click on the iMovie icon in the Dock.
Or, of course, you can launch iMovie by double-clicking on any iMovie project in a Finder window.
Karl

Exporting .avi from FCP 3 / Opening FCP3 project in FCP 4

Hello,
I am currently working on a project in FCP 3. I need to export an .avi-file for use in Adobe Encore on a pc. I have done this before and used the DVpal codec which worked ok, but with this project the image quality is not ok, mostly there seem to be small jumps in a sequence (is on the verge of not running smoothly.. sorry, hard to describe).
I tried all the other codecs I have (BMP, Cinepak, DVCPRO-PAL, DVCPRO50 and no compressor) and all either gave inacceptable image quality or the film does not run smoothly, or took several hours for rendering a 3 minute film.
Can anyone recommend a codec that gives decent image quality and does not take hours for rendering (I am working on a G3 900Mhz ibook). Is there maybe an mpeg2 codec I could use so that I could avoid recompressing in Encore?
I also tried importing the project into FCP 4 on a G4 1.5 Ghz Powerbook but cannot open the file. Is there any way to convert the project to FCP 4? I read about using the XML export for transferring from FCP 4 to 5 or vice versa, but FCP 3 does not have the XML option.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Natalie
ibook G3, 900 Mhz, 640mb ram Mac OS X (10.3.9)

I don't know better than you, Randy, but I do have strong opinions.
OS X does tend to avoid file fragmentation, but that can only do so much, depending on how full the volume is and how much file deletion has taken place.
If the volume is very full, and you can't delete enough data to trim it down, the best thing to do is move/copy all the data to another volume, wipe the 1st volume, then move/copy all the data back. This is usually faster than using a defrag utility.
For best performance, keep your volumes less than 60% full. But I know guys who regularly run at 90 and 95% full without issue. So, go figure. And I know that conventional wisdom says to try to keep volumes less than 80% full. The thing is, when you benchmark a volume with a utility that measures throughput on the outer, inner, and middle tracks separately, you find that most hard drives will slow down when more than 60% full. NOTE: Not slow down terminally, but slow down by 10 to 20 percent or so.*
But the real answer to the defrag question is, don't worry about it . . . as Randy said.
* If you do the math, you'll find that the read/write heads are exposed to about 1/2 of the surface area on the inner tracks as on the outer tracks in a given amount of time. FWIW.

Cannot open imovie projects

Hello,
I've spent the afternoon looking for answers and I've tried everything but still no luck.
I've been working at a project for the past week. This afternoon, imovie crashed when i was editing my project. When I opened imovie, the project was gone from the "project library." I navigated to the imovie project folder, and sure enough, the file was there. Problem is, imovie can't open it. I've clicked, dragged but nothing works.
I've even deleted the "com.apple.imovie8.plist" file but it doesn't help. Finally, i checked the console message and here's what i got:
6/19/10 6:42:20 6/19/10 iMovie[246] Skipping loading of project "South America" due to error: Unable to load project
6/19/10 6:42:20 6/19/10 iMovie[246] CoreText: Bad Glyph Found In 'kern' Subtable Of CTFont <name: Futura-Medium, size: 19.330000, matrix: 0x0>
CTFontDescriptor <attributes: <CFBasicHash 0x9bc870 [0xa0028ee0]>{type = mutable dict, count = 1,
entries =>
1 : <CFString 0xa006cd78 [0xa0028ee0]>{contents = "NSFontNameAttribute"} = <CFString 0xa0025fa8 [0xa0028ee0]>{contents = "Futura-Medium"}
Any ideas on how to fix this?
Thanks!!!!

This means that your original media files were not in your events folder but only links to them, with the originals stored somewhere else. If you look in the events folders inside your iMovie Events folder you will probably see aliases to the clips rather than the clips themselves. If you get info on the alieases they may identify where the original was stored (or they may say the original can't be found).
You must have moved your events folder at some point which broke the links so iMovie now doesn't know where to find them. You can still see the thumbnails in the timeline because these are small low resolution files which are in your project file. Unless you can move your folders back to exactly how they were when you created the project (and on the same computer) you will have to re-import the originals and re-insert them into the timeline.
You could as an alternative try putting one of the clips manually into your events folder in place of the broken alias to it and see if it appears in the timeline when you relaunch iMovie. If this works (I'm not sure if it will) you can do it with the rest and not have to touch the project timeline.
Geoff

Yellowish filter when opening iMovie projects created by the iMovie 4 or 5

I open the old iMovie project created by version 4 (maybe 5), in iMovieHD. There is a warning telling me that "The project was saved with an older version of iMovie. Opening it in this version will cause it to be upgraded, which will make it unreadable by older versions. Are you sure you want to open it?" I click OK and open and the clips/timeline come up, BUT - in the main window the clips look (and play) as if covered by a yellow filter. The projects are fairly recent (2005), created with the same camera I am using now - there was no problem at all last year. The only thing that has changed is that I have upgraded to iLife 6. Could anyon please help/explain what's going on?
Thank you very much!!!!!!

I had the same exact problem, only my "filter" color was purple! It was easily solved though.
This was the answer that worked for me...
"It was pointed out in another thread that this has something to do with the playback setting in iMovieHD.
Go to Preferences->Playback
and change from the "Highest" setting, which seems to be set by default, to one of the others ("High" works for me). The purple cast goes away."
Please post back and let us know if this worked for you.
Adam

Cant open iMovie projects

Help!! everytime i try to open an iMovie project it doesn't work. After i try to create an DVD , exporting to iDVD the following message appears: "The project could not be opened, because the folder is locked, or the folder permissions are incorrect". I checked the folder's permission and they are not locked. I cant figure out , what´s the problem. Does anyone know the solution to this? Thank you and forgive my english.

It's not clear to me whether the iMovie project has trouble opening or the iDVD project.
If iMovie complains about a permissions problem when you try to open the iMovie project, the problem can be fixed by re-building the project folders.
This workaround is for this error message in iMovie 4: "The project could not be opened, because the folder is locked, or the folder permission are incorrect. If the project is on a CD-ROM, network server, or locked disk, then copy it to your hard drive before opening it. If the project is already on your hard disk, then you may not have permission to modify that folder. Correct the folder permissions and try again."
Here's how to replace the current project folder with a new one in iMovie 4:
1. In Finder, create a new folder anywhere OTHER THAN inside the old project folder. Name the new folder "Replacement" or something.
2. Create a new folder inside the Replacement folder. Name it "Media".
3. Open the Media folder of the iMovie project, then choose Edit>Select All.
4. Drag all the selected files to the new Media folder.
5. Drag the files inside the iMovie project folder to the Replacement folder.
6. Repeat #2 through #4 for any other folders in the project folder.
You now have a new project folder named Replacement that contains all the files from the original project. Double-click the project file inside Replacement. If the project opens successfully, quit iMovie, rename Replacement to give it the name of your project, and you're done.
If it doesn't open successfully, move the project.mov file that's inside Replacement to some other folder and try again.
Karl

Loss of Audio when opening Motion project in FCP

I have a 2 minute video I put together in Motion. When I then open the file with FCP the video looks great but the audio is not exported. When I save the file I state to save both audio and video. Any suggestions?
Thanks

Oh dear, I feel like such a noob now
EDIT Figured out what CTI and Match Frame is
and how do I check for .pek files?
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