Problem with titles in iMovie?

I cannot access titles in my iMovie, it continues to crash. Please help?

Thank you for your response to my enquiry.
Problem regarding auto change to duration of still photos is solved, thank you.
I was doing exactly as you said, but I was missing one important action. I was not saving the duration change by hitting the enter key.
Pretty bloomin obvious you will probably say!!
That just leaves the broken title legend on some of the titling options. But I can live with that.
Many thanks again.

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Help please with sound problems with titles in iMovie HD/iDVD

I find on a DVD I am creating that certain titles produce brief, grating noises when once the DVD is burned.
I am unable to hear these noises in iMovie HD.
I have tried re-importing the video and doing all the captions again ~ but the result is always the same: these loud distortions of the audio, but only on a couple of the titles.
By the way, I have found that by setting the volume to 60% on the regular video and setting it to 140% on the clips with titles, I get a result on the burned DVD where the volume appears constant. I have never understood why putting on a title should diminish the volume: seems like a serious weakness in this software.
But right now, it's these unwanted noises that are spoiling my project.
Any answers?
G4 Quicksilver Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Hi again Sue.
I've just gone and read that reference.
No, I've tried extracting the audio and re-doing the title, but when I burn the DVD (and you know how long that takes) I find on playback I have these grating noises.
I suppose I should be grateful they are only brief and affect only a few of the many titles.
Thanks though for taking the trouble to try and help.
Hue in London ['Hugh', 'Hue'... either one's fine!]

New problem with camera and imovie 08

i have two questions already posted about my camera not being found by imovie 08 except that it did it the first time and wouldn't any time after that.
well here's the new problem. as i'm sitting here trying to find some other post that could help me with my dilemna imovie opens and shows my impost screen but says "communication error". with my first joy and imovie working again came confusion about this error. the error makes it so i cannot import video because the next "error" that comes up says my camera is disconnected or off but even this is farther than i've gotten in weeks. i don't know what this error means and i still can't import video. anyone have any suggestions as to how to fix this?

Hi
Test another FW-Cable.
Test Your Camera on another Mac so that DV-in still works OK
Toogle in iMovie pref: Play-back via Camera (on<->off some times)
Other ways to import Your miniDV tape:
Use another Camera. There where tape play-back stations from SONY
but they costed about 2-4 times a normal miniDV Camera.
If Your Camera works on another Mac. Make an iMovie movie project here and move it
over to Your Mac via an external hard disk.
(HAS TO BE Mac OS Exchange formatted - USB/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange WILL NOT DO)
(Should be a FireWire one - USB/USB2 performs badly)
What Camcorder ?
FireWire - Sure not using the accompany USB-Cable but bought a 4-pin to 6-pin FW one ?
Using WHAT ? :
• Mac OS - X.5.4 ?
• QuickTime version ? (This is the heart in both iMovie and FinalCut)
• iMovie 8 (7.1.?) ?
• iMovie HD 6 (6.0.4/3) ?
Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk ? (Others don't count)
Does Your Camera work on another Mac ?
Sorry to say it is to easy to turn the 6-pin end of the FW-cable 180 deg wrong.
This is lethal to the A/D-chip in the Camera = needs an expensive repair.
(Hard to find out - else than import/export to another Mac ceased to work
everything else is OK eg recording and playback to TV)
Delete iMovie pref file may help sometimes. I rather start a new account, log into
this and have a re-try.
from LKN 1935:
Hi Bengt W, I tried it all, but nothing worked. Your answer 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. Thank you. LKN 1935
from Karsten:
in addition to Bengt's excellent '9 yards of advice' ..
camera set to 'Play' , not rec/computer/etc.?
camera not on battery, but power-line?
did your Mac 'recognize' this camera before...?
a technical check:
connect camera, on, playback, fw-connected...
click on the Blue Apple, upper left of your screen ..
choose 'About../More..
under Firewire.. what do you read..?
Yours Bengt W

Problems with titles.

When I place titles in my videos, and then review the video, the preview is very choppy where I placed the titles, then will return to normal once the title is done, then it will start being choppy again when the video contains another title.
Any one have suggestions for me to try? Perhaps some weird setting that I don't know about? Im using a 2011 MacBook Pro 2.4ghz i7, with 8 GB ram, so I don't think its a problem with my machine. And Im really new to video editing, so any help will be greatly appreciated. this is driving me crazy.
Thanks for any help.

Are you rendering your timeline whenever you see red lines above your clips (working in Timeline mode)? When you see red lines along the top of the timeline, press Enter. When the sequences are rendered, the red lines will turn green and your playback should improve greatly.

OS X Mavericks problem with iphoto and imovie

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I having problem with my iphoto and imovie after installing 10.9. When i go to Appstore and ask me to recomfirm but there's nothing happen..why? kindly help me.

If you purchased the apps from the Mac App Store, log into the Mac App Store, go to Purchases and redownload them. If you didn't and you have the CD/DVD of iLife you can reinstall the apps from there.
If you have a Time Machine backup or clone of your previous OS X install, you can use the Migration Assistant to copy over your apps.

Problem with "Title" and DW CS4

I have a problem with dreamweaver CS4. When I create a layout
in Fireworks CS4, and the amount DW not allow me to change the
title. The title in DW I can change but the Web is always "untitled
document".
Hello Mauro
PS: excuse for my poor english

Post a link to a page, please.
You realize that using FW to write your HTML is not suitable
for production
work?
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> I have a problem with dreamweaver CS4. When I create a
layout in Fireworks
> CS4, and the amount DW not allow me to change the title.
The title in DW I
> can
> change but the Web is always "untitled document".
>
> Hello Mauro
>
> PS: excuse for my poor english
>

Problems with titler window losing focus

I'm using PP2.0, running on windows XP x64. It's been running since it was last re-installed in December 2007 (after a problem with codecs that broke PP2), and I've made no changes to it or to any of the support processes it uses, nor any changes to the OS (apart from service packs). There have been NO driver changes, window layout changes, workspace changes, or any other changes (apart from entropy). The mouse I'm using is a [oxymoron]Kensington Expert Mouse Pro[/oxymoron], with their latest (i.e. 2007) drivers, and XMouse ver 1.37.0.0 (i.e. their latest x64 driver), but this happens regardless of the mouse or keyboard I use.
To set the scene... I use a "standard" title template for all my video work, with predefined text fields and colours and so on. There's nothing bizarre or extraordinary about these templates, they're actually super simplistic in terms of what most users here use their titlers for! The entire title is completely static - there are no scrolling or moving anythings, the title is overlaid on black video, there are just a dozen simple text boxes and one standard logo (bmp format), that's it. I use only Arial fonts, with no special settings or kerning or spacing or anything more complex than colour. I haven't touched or modified the original titler template since I set it up in December 2008. The problem I'm seeing happens to any titles, not just the known working template, so it's definitely a PP2 problem, not a titler problem.
The problem is that recently (in the past 3-4 months, over maybe 5 projects in that time) the titler window loses focus while I'm using it, and the PP2 main application becomes active.
When I bring the titler window up (using any method) and start editing, that window loses focus (window frame reverts to the background windowframe colour) and I can't type or do anything else in the titler window.The PP2 app window suddenly become the active window, and remains active until I shut down the titler.
My workaround is to click and hold in the titler window, on or around the text I want to edit. So by pressing and holding the left mouse button, I can insert text just fine in any existing text frame. And by selecting text with the left button and then holding it (like I'm starting a drag operation), I can _replace_ the selected text - but as soon as I release the mouse button, the focus leaves the titler and I can't do anything again.
I've reset the workspace, changed mouse and keyboards, but the problem isn't a hardware or driver issue. PP2 is the only application that behaves like this, and it's the only Adobe application that behaves like this - Photoshop (5.5 and CS8) and Audition (1.5 and 3.0) all work perfectly normally.
This behaviour occurs with titles I've used and saved in previous working projects, it happens with new blank titles, and so on.
What I've noticed most recently while trying to fix the problem, is that sometimes I can actually type a couple of letters or hit an editing key or two in the titler window normally, but then the titler loses focus and keeps it lost permanently after that. That doesn't always happen, and it doesn't appear to be related to process flow. So restarting PP2, or closing and reloading a project, don't affect the arbitrary nature of the "sometimes starts to work" behaviour. I can sometimes re-edit a title in the same project after editing the title with the focus lost, and suddenly the first few keystrokes are normal, but then the focus reverts to the main app.
If anyone has any ideas or suggestions to try (apart from reinstalling the application again or upgrading), I'd be most grateful.
-PCPete

I think you're right, it's starting to look like another problem within the "new" PP2 installation. It's such a complex app, it's not surprising it gets lost.
Since this is the only app that has this problem (and because of the nature of the problem), I know it's not a graphics card or driver issue.
This appears to be a high-level windows function problem, to do with the way the PP2 app is handling the modal form. It's probably not the mouse driver, since I don't move the mouse outside of the child window, but that doesn't leave much else. I don't have popups or any other asynchronous applications (like email warning windows or balloon-type reminders or notifications) either.
I really don't want to go through the horror of yet another reinstall of an Adobe product if I can possibly avoid it, but pending no other useful ideas, that is an absolute last resort.

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iOS does not run on iMacs. So what new update are you talking about?

Problems adding titles on iMovie

Hi all,
I am brand new in MAC and getting started with iMovie.
I have a problem: when I create a new title, it won't be addded to a clip. Actually, it only works if it on black background, but not above a clip itself )with the clip as the background).
Any help will be welcommed!
Nedda

hello Nedda:
Welcome to the iMovie discussions!
You need to be sure that the
b Over Black
box is unchecked in the titles area
Then you need to
b Drag
the "T" by the
i type
of title you want ( Typewrtier, centered, etc)
i not
the actual title you typed. Be sure that you try to add it to the beginning of a clip or at a point where you have split the clip.
Also, you do not need to "Update" the title unless it is already there and you want to edit it.
Hope that was clear
Sue

Still having a problem with Themes in imovie hd 6

I am having difficulty placing a Theme segment into the movie timeline. It seems to render then it disappears.
Steps I have taken to remedy this situation:
(1) Checked for conflicting software (plug-in) in QuickTime and iMovie
(2) Created another user alias to check for other software conflicts. I was able to render the theme segment under this new alias so I deleted all log in items from my administrative acct. This fixed a different problem I was having with placing pictures from the Media > Photo into the time line (previously the photos would bounce out as well). However I am still unable to use the Theme segments.
Any Suggestions?
Thanks, Michael

The symptoms you describe are all consistent with a permissions problem. (After rendering a theme, iMovie discovers it doesn't have permission to write to the project and discards the rendered file.) Use the Finder's Get Info command to check permission settings on the iMovie project and the folder containing it. The drive too?
You might want to consider setting the project drive to ignore ownership. (See the checkbox in the Get Info window.)
Long ago iMovie would (rarely) have trouble setting/getting permissions of the project folder. I don't think that's true again, but there have been a couple of reports here that moving the project to another folder helped. You might try creating a new folder on the project drive, set its permission to read and write, and move the project there.
Karl
PS: You've upgraded to iMovie 6.0.1?

Aspect ratio problem with AVCHD in iMovie 08

I am importing footage from a Panasonic HDC-SD9 into iMovie 08. the footage gets in there fine and looks great EXCEPT that the footage (all shot in 16:9) is squashed a little bit. in the preview clips below, it looks fine, but in the player above (and if I export it as a Quicktime file) it is squashed slightly. there are black bars above and below the footage, and (I'm guessing) were the video stretched to fill the entire area, eliminating the black bars, it would be the correct aspect ratio. I've tried importing footage form the camera supposedly shot in 4:3, and the same thing happens.
I know that I can simply do a quick edit in imovie, export it, import it into final cut pro, and stretch it back. however, I'm worried about losing quality, and more importantly, I don't know the exact ratio, since I can't even figure out what imovie is doing to the video to make it squashed, let alone in what manner.
the footage from the HDC-SD9 is AVCHD, and I understand there is something about square pixels vs. rectangular, but I don't know much about it. I have tried every iteration of imovie's limited aspect ratio settings, and I can't get it to work. I know it's meant to work well with AVCHD, so I'm assuming I'm missing something fundamental and simple. (some box to check to let imovie know I'm importing AVCHD?) it's maddening to see the footage correctly in the thumbnails, but squashed for (seemingly) no reason in the playback. can you help me out? otherwise I am going to film myself holding something that is a perfect square, then import it to imovie, then export to quicktime, then import the quicktime file into finalcut, then stretch it til the rectangle becomes a perfect square, and write down the settings for the future. seems ridiculously complicated, especially for the mac world.
I love imovie 08 (seriously, some of the new toys are just so amazing, and no render time at all!), and I love this camera. please tell me they can get along!

I think I'm having a problem similar to this. I'm using a Sharp MiniDV camera, and shooting in 16:9. When I used to import to other versions of iMovie it worked fine, but w/ iMovie 08 it is squashing and stretching the incoming video to more like 20:9 (I have no idea what the actual ratio is, this is just a guess). I tried changing import to PAL 25fps, but that didn't do any thing. Any other suggestions?

Problems with titles and photo galleries

Hi
I would really appreciate help with two problems...
1. I have changed the title on all my pages yet the title bar
in the browser still shows untitled document!
2. I have downloaded a photo gallery from the internet and
exchanged the images for my own, works perfectly off my own
computer but as soon as I put it in as a flash file in my page and
publish, none of the images are there and it has 'undefined' on the
bottom of the gallery
Thanks for any support
MVA1983

A url always helps but here are some pointers
1) Make sure you are not using a frameset.
2) Check the links to the images in the flash file because it
sound like
the link is somehow different between your machine and the
server.
Paul Whitham
Certified Dreamweaver MX2004 Professional
Adobe Community Expert - Dreamweaver
Valleybiz Internet Design
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news:fc2lpr$9q4$[email protected]..
> Hi
> I would really appreciate help with two problems...
> 1. I have changed the title on all my pages yet the
title bar in the
> browser
> still shows untitled document!
> 2. I have downloaded a photo gallery from the internet
and exchanged the
> images for my own, works perfectly off my own computer
but as soon as I
> put it
> in as a flash file in my page and publish, none of the
images are there
> and it
> has 'undefined' on the bottom of the gallery
> Thanks for any support
> MVA1983
>

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I have iMovie installed on my iPhone 4. When I add a title for my clip I also get a 1/2 inch wide translucent vertical line on the left edge of my clip along with the title. I've watched an iMovie tutorial on YouTube and I see the same line; however, on the tutorial it fades out along with the title after a couple of seconds, but does not do so on my iPhone 4. Is there a way to get the line (and title) to fade out after I start playing the clip?

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Hi everybody! I'm using adobe premiere pro cs 3,I've added two titles in my video that "scroll" from right to left and vice versa.. after reading help and tutorial I tried to add anti aliasing and blur in order to resolve it but when I export the video they appear not clear with many thin horizontal black
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Strange problem with titles when exporting to Quick Time

I recently finished a project. It includes some simple titles - mostly lower third consisting of 2 lines, left justified. When I export to QT, the centering on the titles mysteriously changes - flipping from left to right. I keep going back to the timeline to double check and even do them over again, but the same thing keeps happening over and over again, often on a different titles. I've also tried copying the timeline to a new project. When I export the files through compressor, a completely different set of titles uncentered themselves. When I go back to the original timeline however, all the settings are correct. This is most aggrivating! I've never had this problem before. Any suggestions appreciated.

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