Restoring events / projects of iMovie

Hello,
Would anyone know which files or folders one would need to restore from backup
in order torestore a given event of iMovie ? Since iMovie is not time-machine-ready
one needs apparently to "manually" restore the relevant files. The same question
applies to restoring from backup a given project.
Thank you.

Why do you say that iMovie is not Time Machine ready?
It works fine on iMovie 11. I am trying to remember if there were any limitations on iMovie 08, but it has been a few years.
If you want to restore an Event, restore the whole event folder and place it in the iMovie Events folder at the top level of an external drive. Or place it in the Movies/iMovie Events folder of your startup (internal) drive.
The external drive must be formatted as Mac OS Extended (journaled) - not FAT32.

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I've got iMovie 10.1 and, unlike other Apple software, I cannot make heads or tails about how it is storying my video clips.   Things that appear in IMovie Library do not appear in All Events. How can that be possible? Shouldn't All Events contain any clip I have imported? I can't even figure out what is the difference between those two folders.   I can't figure out what All Projects contains. either. It seems to contain the same thing that is in iMovie Library so why have two folders with different names that have the same things?
I've been trying to research this on the web and have not found anybody who can explain what these different folders mean.   Can somebody here do it?
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The help for iMovie is basically useless. I cannot find any explanation as to how to delete a clip or how to organize them using these confounding folder names that seem to be different names for exactly the same thing. Has anybody mastered this?

iMovie 10.1 stores everything in a library package with the extension .imovielibrary but you can have more than 1 library. When in iMovie, 'All Events' should show all the events in the currently open libraries just as 'All Projects' should do for projects. These are not actual folders but simply display all the items currently available from the open libraries.
Deleting clips is described in help under: Browse & organize the library - Organize your events & projects - Delete movies, trailers, clips, and events
Help does contain a lot more information that appears at first but its not always obvious which section to find it in. Its worth going through it all carefully because so many things have been changed in imovie 10 compared to 9.
Some patience is needed to get in tune with the new way of doing things.
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Deleting Events & Projects from iMovie

I have completed my projects and shared them with iDVD and sucessfully burned them.
If I delete all events and projects in iMovie will I still have the finished product in iDVD?

Yes once you have created projects in iDVD, you will find those files stored in your User/Documents folder.
You can delete the iMovie files without affecting the IDVD projects.
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Is it possible to have more than one event/project in Imovie at the same time?

Let me see if I can shorten this. I am working on a project for a review. It's going to take quite awhile and I'm half way through it. However, I need to work on another project, one thats short and I can dish out fairly quickly. My problem is that I cannot start it without discarding my current project. Which I cannot do because I will lose a weeks worth of data. And I cannot save it because it will combine all the clips and I would have to re-split them (half a days progress).
So in short, is there a way to save my project as-is? Or possible create a new event and start a new project while maintaining my current work? Thank you for your help!

Version 10.0.3 is the latest version of iMovie. iMove '11 (as in 2011) is version 9.
iMovie saves your Projects automatically. So you can just choose to create a new Project. Your existing Projects will remain available for you to go back to whenever you like.
You can have as many Projects as you like. You don't need ot finish one before you begin another.
Post back if you have specific questions.
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Here is the scenario I am facing: I completed some projects and then moved those events & projects to an external HD that subsequently died. The question I have is how can I tap into Time Capsule's history to restore the events and projects I moved out from the internal HD and later lost because the external HD died? All of this happened in Mac OS Mavericks, running iMovie 10, so "my stuff" lives within the "iMovie Library.imovielibrary" file whose content I should not see/modify.
Thank you, eugen

Hello eugen_nw
Open up Finder and navigate to your Movies folder where the library was stored and enter Time Machine and you should see the cascading Finder Windows and you can go back an find the file and then click Restore to bring back the file. Check out the article below and there is a section for restoring files.
Mac Basics: Time Machine backs up your Mac
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1427
Regards,
-Norm G.

IMovie -Problem restoring events after external hard drive failed.

iMovie 09 – The external hard drive failed where I stored my 2012 events. I do not have a backup copy of these events. I bought a new external drive and named it exactly the same as the old drive. Then I uploaded archived original video clips to it recreating the events. I used the exact same event names. However when I view the projects I made from the original events, I get “this clip’s media file is not currently available”. The file path I created should be the same as the old, so why does the project not recognize the recreated events? Any suggestions what I could try?
If I were able to retrieve and copy the old events from the failed drive to the new drive, would that work?
Has anyone successfully dealt with this problem?

That's a very interesting scenario that you've described. I've been concerned about a potential situation arising where I may need to restore Events from a backup drive. However, your situation is somewhat different in that you've had to re-import the Events to a new drive from an archive.
My main video drive is a Maxtor One Touch III Turbo comprising two 500GB drives set up as a RAID 0. So, effectively it appears as one drive totalling 1TB, with data being written to both drives simultaneously (but not mirrored). However, if one drive fails, the other becomes ineffective as it contains only partial data about imported clips (the remaining data being on the failed drive).
I backup the Maxtor to a portable 1TB drive by cloning it using SuperDuper. My thinking has been that, if the Maxtor fails then a simple rename of the backup drive to the same name as the Maxtor is all that will be required for iMovie to retain the linkages between Events and Projects. I hope this is the case!
I hope you get a solution to your predicament - sorry I can't offer any useful advice!
John

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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.
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Hi I am a complete newbie to the MAC forums. Apologies in advance for the long winded post!
Past:
I have been a Windows / Video Studio user for many years. (Win 7, Q6600 cpu, 8gb RAM)
I principally make DVD's of slideshows, interspersed with video and with a music background for myself, businesses and friends.
I'm not a "Pro" by any stretch of the imagination but I've been successfully making reasonable quality output.
Now
I've moved to the Mac and as my profile shows I've bought a reasonable machine - iMac 27", 16gb RAM, i7 3.4gHz cpu, AMD Radeon HD 6970M (2GB) and 1TB main drive and 3TB external drives.
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Utilize the 64bit the iMac is capable of; and
give myself more flexibility for creativity (VS X3 had heaps of themes, transitions, titling etc)
Questions
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All text frames (as intros to particular groups of photos) lose their formatting and the text is cropped and unreadable.
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Lastly, the plethora of options for output leaves me baffled to say the least. It is not helped because i am not a Pro but even iMovie is difficult to easily produce a high quality DVD for playback on a big screen TV. I try various options, SHARE>Media Browser>LARGE, or 1080p (produces 108 error in iMovie) Then import into iDVD to produce DVD menu and output to Image file prior to burning on SL or DL media.What is the best workflow to produce the best DVD output on a HD TV?
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Thanks Tom.
Do I understand correctly that to produce 90 minutes of high quality I need a Blu-ray burner? I follow that DL discs can only produce HD up to 40 minutes and to go beyond that I need a Blu-ray burner and disc.
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Patrick and Tom, I appreciate you taking the time to share your wealth of knowledge.
With thanks,
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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.
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Merging iMovie 10 events, projects and library...

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You can move Events and Projects to the external drive. This must be done in iMovie, not the Finder.
First click VIEW/By DISK. You will see your properly formatted drives listed in the Events source pane and the Projects source pane. You can drag and drop Events and Projects to these disk icons. iMovie will automatically create the proper folders on the external drive.
There are additional options in iMovie 09. For example, you can move an Event, Project, and associated resources to an external drive together, so that if you need to port them to a different computer, it is easily done. See the HELP for details.

Restored Events in iMovie v10 did not restore media

Using iMovie 10.0.1, I dragged and dropped a bunch of Events from an external hard drive(iMovie Library 1) to my Mac hard drive (iMovie Library). Once the move was complete, as verified by the 'pie chart' being completely filled in in the upper right corner, I deleted the moved Events from the external hard drive located in the iMovie Library 1 by highlighting the Events, right-clicking and selecting "Move Event to Trash". When I went to use the newly-moved Events located in the iMovie Library, the Events were empty.
I tried to "Undo Move Events to Trash". This placed the deleted Events structure back on the external hard drive(iMovie Library 1), but only the structure was there. When I clicked on the restored-Event, it was empty. I also verified that the filter was set to "All Clips" and not "Hide Rejected".
In Finder, when I select "iMovie Library 1" and click on "Show Package Contents", and then double click on "__Trash", I can see the file structure of the deleted Events. However, the only file in the Event directory is "CurrentVersion.imovieevent". I don't see the media files so I can't restore them.
I can see that the "__Trash" directory is huge, about 250GB so I believe the files are still there, but I need help figuring out how to restore them.

Many users have lost photos while preforming a restore from backup or upgrading the iOS. Recall, only photos in the camera roll are backed up to iCloud. There is a way to turn backups for camera roll on/off, perhaps these users had camera roll turned off.
See:
Settings>icloud>Storage & Backups>Manage Storage, tap the device's name and on the next screen, be sure Camera Roll is turned on.
IMPORTANT...
Photos should be regularly synced to a computer (like you store photos from a digital camera) using either USB via iTunes (on a mac use iPhoto or Aperture to move them to an album) or using photo stream. If you have been doing that, then you can sync those photos back to your device.
If you haven't been saving photos except relying on iCloud to store them in a backup, then that is risky, as many users have discovered. I'm afraid I have no advice in this case - there is no "cure".

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