SDHC Camcorders and iMovie????

Does anyone know if the new Hi Def camcorders from Panasonic and Samsung that use a SDHC card and the H.264 video codec work with iMovie HD?

It would probably be able to mount the card (card reader required) and you could then drag the file from it to your Desktop.
But it's the video format that will probably give you issues. Any will need conversion to DV Stream and iMovie can't do that conversion in most cases.
If your camera choice stores the video as MPEG-2 you'll need third party software for the conversion. Some use MPEG-4 format but oddball codecs that do not follow industry standards. Do some more homework before buying.

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Sony camcorders and imovie

okay, so I have tried everything under the sun to try and transfer my Sony hi-8 camcorder video to my imovie without success and many hours of tech support from apple and sony. No resolution. I understand there is a compatibility issue with the two. I was wondering if anyone has information on using a analog to dv converter to try and bypass this problem? I was looking into the DAC 100 as reviewed on Macworld. Any input?

Should be more straightforward than that.
I don't know your camcorder. But the problem seems that you cannot use firewire connection to capture directly into FCE (or iMovie): any DVD or hard disk camcorder usually compresses into MPEG2, and this is not the input format for FCE and iMovie. You have to convert it, as you did, and this both takes time and loses quality.
BTW if you use MPEG Stremclip to import into FCE you must send output to .mov format, while for iMovie to .dv (DV stream).
Piero

Hearing conflicting reports. What camcorders work best with macbook pro and imovie

I am looking to purchase a new HD Camcorder, but Im told some of them dont work well with macbook pro and Imovie.
Im in the process of buying a new iMac and want to make sure I will be able to load the movies direrct to imovie.
Thanks.

This forum is for mobile iMovie (iPads & iPhones).
you may need the iMovie Mac forum:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/ilife/imovie

HD video from SD card (SDHC card) into iMovie?

Hi,
It looks like others have had similar problems, but reading various replies, and being new to Mac and video editing, I can't seem to get the info I need.
While on holiday we bought a Sanyo xacti HD1010 camcorder/still camera. All data is on HC SD cards. When I try and transfer to the iMac, everything goes into iPhoto, the video clips with a green tint to them. I downloaded the latest QT which enables me to play the individual clips, and managed to import the clips to iMovie, but iMovie crashes each time i try and play a clip. Other clips, (not HD ones and from a standard SD card) play and edit fine.
Could someone please assist, as I have three 8GB cards to edit!
I'm also going to need some help installing a 500GB external hard drive to store everything. (We already have over 10 000 photos in iPhoto and about three hours of edited video waiting togo onto DVD)
Many thanks,
DH

I have a similar Sanyo ..not your hi-def Xacti HD1010, but the more low-tech standard-def 'waterproof' VPC-CA8EX..
..which also records - like yours - in MPEG-4 AVC/H.264. But yours is proper hi-def AVCHD H.264.
I put my SDHC cards into a fast SDHC USB2 'Christallo' brand card reader, and import the video from there. The card reader shows on my Desktop as 'XACTI', and then when I start iMovie it automatically detects the 'camera' and starts reading the clips from the card and showing thumbnail images. When I click 'Import All' it whizzes through the clips, importing in a tiny fraction of 'real-time' ..about two seconds for a 1-minute clip.. finally reporting that it "..Imported 21 minutes and 44 seconds from 43 clips.." in less than a minute. Then it spends about 2 minutes generating actual thumbnails of these clips in iMovie '08.
(..It's generally, I find, faster to read a camera's, or camcorder's, images through a separate card reader than reading by connecting a camera to the Mac..)
So my clips don't go through iPhoto ..they're - automatically - imported straight into iMovie '08 on an Intel-powered Mac.
(..Ah, no; it's still churning through thumbnail-generation; that was an estimated 2 minutes for just the first day's clips ..but these clips are split over four separate days' shooting ..now it's finished.)
As you're using a similar codec (method of recording) - although in hi-def, with a wider screen format and a great number of pixels - your imports should, I think, behave similarly to mine, though importing may be slower, as you have more info in each 'frame' of video.
If I open iPhoto after connecting the card reader, iPhoto sees a device called 'Xacti', reads and displays all the photos and video clips, and when I click on 'Import' it briskly brings them all into iPhoto, without the time which iMovie spends generating video thumbnails afterwards.
None of the video clips have "..a green tint to them".
If I then start iMovie, I get the message "iMovie needs to generate thumbnails for the videos in your iPhoto library. This process may take several minutes. You can postpone this operation by clicking Later, but your iPhoto videos will be unavailable until the next time you restart iMovie". ..So there it goes, generating its video thumbnails. After one minute, it thinks that it's still going to take a further 7 minutes to do this..
(..Enough time for me to go and have breakfast all over again!..)
iMovie seizes up and becomes completely unresponsive while it's generating the thumbnails which it wants to display for the Xacti clips stored in iPhoto..
My setup is QuickTime Version 7.5.7 (249.30.1) ..also called Version 7.5.7 (995.26.2) and iMovie version ..well; I can't yet tell you what version (..but it's the latest..) because iMovie is unresponsive while it's creating these darned thumbnails! (..Oh; about another "5 minutes" to go.. this really is a slow way round; importing directly into iMovie in the first place, without using iPhoto, was -f-a-r- faster!..)
Meanwhile, about your hard disc;
It ought to be a FireWire-connected disc, not a USB-connected disc, as USB is far slower for continuous data transfer - such as chunks of video while editing - than FireWire, despite what salespeople tell you in shops.
Assuming it's a FireWire disc, it's probably been pre-formatted for use with a PC, not a Mac, so you'll probably need to format it as 'Mac OS Extended' instead of 'PC Exchange - FAT32'. As it's large - 500GB - you'll probably also need to partition it.
Instead of writing out all over again how to do this, I'll just refer you to another thread - read all the way through, including the bits about 'Options' and choosing 'Apple Partition Map' or 'GUID' - here: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8542065#8542065
Ah, now: iMovie; "less than a minute" ..till thumbnails are complete. Yup, here they all are, and playing nicely. At last!
So; I can tell you what my Sanyo Xacti (standard-def, 4:3 shaped movies) does ..or rather, how importing works. So it should work just the same - I guess - with yours.
I don't have any conflicting codecs which I could have downloaded and which might interfere with iMovie - do you?
But I would guess that the crashing is more likely related to "..we seem to have used 295 so only 5 G left.." ..ANY Mac is going to have trouble if you're trying to handle hi-def and you've only 5GB of storage space left.
STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING and configure that external disc, and unload some of your 295GB files onto that to give your Mac at least 10% - i.e; 30GB - "breathing space"!
Then, with a properly-configured external FireWire disc, and 30GB space on your internal disc, try again. Oh, and you may find importing runs faster with a fast external card reader, and by starting up iMovie instead of iPhoto (..disable iPhoto's Preference marked under the 'General' tab "Connecting camera opens: "iPhoto" ..set it to "No application").

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

Optura 20 and iMovie 10.0.6---camera doesn't mount

My daughter recorded a video for her class and needs to edit it. I have used my Optura 20 and successfully transferred video to the iMac but not in the last few years.
Currently running Yosemite and iMovie 10.0.6 on a mid-2011 iMac.
When I plug the camera directly into the firewire port, iMovie does not see it. When I go to "system information" and look at the Firewire bus, I see the warning "Unable to list FireWire devices." When I remove the camera and plug in my firewire HD, it appears quite nicely in System information; when I plug the camera into the drive to "daisy-chain" the system info reverts to "unable to list" and the hard drive disappears from my desktop.
This is using the (only) Firewire cable I have for the camera, which is 9 pin to 3 pin.
I went to my ancient mac mini (running OS 10.4) but that ancient beast has only a 6 pin outlet on the back.
Before I run out and try to find a 6--->3 cable, does anyone have any insight? Does this camera never work on a modern mac with a modern OS? Is the problem I am having likely to also show up on the Ancient Mini? My fallback position is to go to a camera store and have the miniDV converted to a digital file (and I would like to do this the old-fashioned way if at all possible).
Any thoughts?

Hi
NO CAMERA or A/D-box
Cable
Are You sure that You are using the FireWire Cable - USB-Cable will not work for miniDV tape Cameras FireWire - Sure not using the accompany USB-Cable but bought a 4-pin to 6-pin (or 9-pin) FW one ?
Test another FW-Cable very often the problem maker.
Camera
Test Your Camera on another Mac so that DV-in still works OK
Toggle in iMovie pref. Play-back via Camera (on <-> off some times)
Some Cameras has a Menu where You must select DV-out to get it to work
Camera connected to "charger" (mains adaptor) - not just on battery
Camera set in Playback mode - NOT Recording mode
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 e.g. recording and playback to TV)
A/D-box
Is the dip-switches set right ?
Set to same standard as recorded/editing e.g. NTSC 29.97fps or PAL 25fps
Try resetting it
Connections
Daisy Chaining most often doesn’t work (some unique cases - it’s the only way that work (some Canon Cameras ?))
Try to avoid connecting Camera <--> external HD <--> Mac but import directly to the Mac then move
the Movie project to dedicated external hard disk.
FireWire-port - Can be re-setted by - Turn off Mac and disconnecting Mac from Mains/Power for 20-30 minutes
External device’s (hard disk’s)
Should be FireWire as USB/USB2 performs badly and so does Airport or Net-work connected ones too.
MUST BE - Mac OS Extended formatted - UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange - DO NOT WORK for video due to 4Gb barrier.
Mac
Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk ? Please specify the amount of free space.
(Other hard disks don't count)
I go for a minimum of 25Gb free space for 4x3 SD Video - and my guess is 5 times more for 16x9 HD ones after material is imported and edited.
GarageBands fix - Close iMovie, Open GarageBand, Play some notes, Close GB and iMove can now be OK
Does Your Mac have a FireWire Port
White MacBooks - don't
MacBook-Air - don't
if not then a few Mac’s has a PCM-CIA slot and there are FW-Cards that makes a FW-port this way
if Thunderbolt - use a Thunderbolt to FireWire adaptor.
else - NO SOLUTION
Only option as I get it is either
Use another Mac to Capture material (to an external USB2 - Mac OS Extended formatted hard disk - or -
Change to another Camera that can be used with Your Mac (no there are no miniDV tape Cameras that can)
If Your Mac-Book has a PCM-CIA Card place - then there are FW-port-Cards and then
You can import via this - but I've not seen this on more modern Macs. My PowerBook G4
has one and this FW-Card-port works greatly.
SoftWare
Delete iMovie pref. file may help sometimes. I rather start a new account, log into this and have a re-try.
Any strange Plug-ins into QuickTime as Perian etc ? Remove and try again.
FileVault is off ? (hopefully)
Screen Saver - OFF
Energy Saver - OFF
Using WHAT versions ? .
Mac OS - X.5.4 ?
QuickTime version ? (This is the heart in both iMovie and FinalCut)
iMovie’08 (7.1.?), 09 or 11 ?
iMovie HD 6 (6.0.4/3) ?
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 Extended formatted - USB/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange WILL NOT DO)
(Should be a FireWire one - USB/USB2 performs badly)
from LKN 1935.
Hi Bengt W, I tried it all, but nothing worked. Your answer has been helpful 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 . . ?
More
FileVault - Secure that it’s turned off
Network storage - DOESN’T WORK
Where did You store/capture/import Your project ?
External USB hard disk = Bad Choice / FireWire = Good
If so it has to be Mac OS Extended formatted
----> UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange is NOT Working for VIDEO !
mbolander
Thanks for all your suggestions. What I learned is that I had a software problem. I had something called "Nikon Transfer" on my Mac that was recognizing my Canon camcorder as a still camera and was preventing iMovie from working properly. After un-installing Nikon Transfer and doing a reboot, everything worked great.
I never liked the Nikon Transfer software anyway--I guess I'll get a cheap card reader and use that to transfer photos in the future.
No Camera or bad import
USB hard disk
Network storage
File Vault is on
jiggaman15dg wrote
if you have adobe cs3 or 4 and have the adobe bridge on close that
or no firewire will work
see if that helps
DJ1249 wrote
The problem was the external backup hard drive that is connected, you need to disconnect the external drive before the mac can see the video camera.
MaryBoog wrote
Maybe your problems is solved in the meantime, but for all others this might help as I had the same problem, also have the Sony HDR-HC7, but the 7e (Europe, PAL). I found this link today and it works perfectly
//support.sony-europe.com/tutorials/dime/videotransfer/vtransfer.aspx site=odw_en_GB&sec=DVH&m=HDR-HC7E
What I exactly did.- put camera in play mode - open guide - choose connection guide - choose comp./printer (where to transfer movie to) - select connection.- i-link (on my camera) but equal to firewire - OK - choose HDV - choose NO for conversion of i.link.
Settings are shown then (VCR HDV/DV.- HDV and i.link-conv..- OFF), press OK, OK, END.
Switch camera off. Connect firewire cable to camera & Mac. Switch camera on, in play/edit mode.
Open i-movie, choose import from camera. On screen below the camera connection is shown.- DV (HDV). Now you can import, automatically or manually.
This worked perfectly for me. Took me 2 days to find out. Could not find any clear thread explaining what I had to do on the camera and the manual was not clear either.
Yours Bengt W

Panasonic camcorders in iMovie 11

I have purchased two Panasonic camcorders for school use, the X920 and the WA03. The former is for teacher use (and occasional responsible students) and the later for student use. We will do a technology segment teaching middle school and high school kids how to use the camcorders and edit. The students would need to edit on one of the (new) Mac Minis in one of the labs or classrooms. I have iMovie 11 and iMovieHD 6 on all mac minis plus a list of conversion programs like Handbrake and MPEG Streamclip as well as iDVD for an option for completing projects.
The X920 creates AVCHD and iFrame clips and the WA03 creates MPG and iFrame clips. I've spent the day learning iMovie 11 as my experience is in iMovieHD, Final Cut Express and I even cut my teeth on FCP 1 in 1999. I've enjoyed learning iMovie 11 today though I avoided the 2nd reincarnation of iMovie for years. Today I read some frustrations that people have had with iMovie 8,9,11 with "color banding" or posterization. Perhaps I shouldn't worry about it with school projects, but the shooting options are a bit overwhelming. Frame size, progressive or interlaced, MPEG vs AVCHD vs iFrame THEN iMovieHD vs iMovie 11 (the other techie teachers wants to use iMovie 11). (I didn't like the looks of interlaced video in iMovie 11 Monitor Window playback.)...(Some editors say "do not use H.264.)
It would seem that the easy answer is just go with iFrame and don't worry about ultimate footage quality and edit with iMovie 11 with or without reduction in quality issues. If you have any suggestions on a format to use in either camera and the editing software, fire away. I'm a listening ear...for now. : )
Hopefully I've covered all the important considerations for any kind replies.

well that might be a common problem with camcorders and programs. Don't worry about it, there are dozens of video converter on the Net to solve your problems.
I used this video converter a lot to convert camcorder videos to programs as well as mobile devices. Maybe you can try it as well. Here's the guide of it, please check. remember, just convert the videos to iMovie .mov and you can edit videos well with iMovie.
wish my suggestion would help and good lck to you!
Lisa

Unable to capture in FCP, Quicktime and iMovie, camera not recognized.

I am unable to capture in FCP, Quicktime and iMovie.
I have been dealing with this problem for quite a while now, and I think I have tried everything posted on these forums regarding this issue. I have been to the Quicktime, iMovie, and this FCP forum looking for the solution. Hopefully someone has a suggestion that I have missed or have not tried yet. I have a Powerbook G4 running OSX Tiger 10.4. I am running Quicktime 7.04, and FCP 4.5.
My problem is this… I am unable to capture from my Canon ZR-200 Mini DV camera, using Final Cut Pro, iMovie and also Quicktime. FCP says no camera recognized. iMovie says no camera attached, and Quicktime says no recording device found. In FCP, I am using the Firewire Basic setting, and NTSC DV settings. I have captured in FCP with the same camera several times in the past. I think the problem started when I upgraded to OSX 10.4, or one of the Quicktime upgrades.
Here are the details…
- Camera is connect via Firewire. I have tried the built in ports, as well as a Firewire Carbus card.
- OSX recognizes the Canon ZR-200 in the System Profiler, so I know the computer sees the camera.
- I have tried the camera on a Windows XP machine, and capture works perfectly, so I know the camera is functioning properly in VTR mode.
- Deleted my FCP pref’s using FCP Rescue.
- Deleted the Quicktime receipts, and re-installed Quicktime 7.04
- Reverted back to Quicktime 7.01
- Set the audio to 44.1 in the the Audio MIDI setup in the Utilities folder
- Tried the “GarageBand” fix, opening the programing, playing a few notes and closing.
- I have installed Quicktime using the program “Yank” to completely delete Quicktime and re-install.
I may have tried more solutions, but these are the fixes that I can recall.
If anyone has any others suggestions, it would be much appreciated.
Brent

Hi Brent:
Although it looks as if you have tried all of the 'fixes' that are normally suggested here, please read through this Apple Article to see if some obscure thing applies to you.
iMovie: Cannot see or control camera
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=43000
Sue

After upgrading to Mavericks I cannot update iPhoto and iMovie. Why?

Just got my first Mac, an iMac. I upgraded to Maverick and once done I find there are updates available for iPhoto and iMovie. First I have tried to register "accept" the two apps. Nothing happens. Then I try to update them and get the answer that these apps was installed with another Apple ID. The thing is that I don't have any other Apple ID and noone else has touched my iMac. I have tried to reinstall Maverick three times now but end up with the same result. Anyone who has any clue or have experienced the same problem?

Open System Preferences > Users & Groups then select the Password tab.
Make sure you see the correct Apple ID.
If not, click Change.
Make sure you are logged into your admin account before updating apps.
Reinstalling Mavericks requires using OS X Recovery but there's no reason to reinstall Mavericks just to update your apps.
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I have been storing my Aperture and IMovie Libraries on an external hard drive that recently died. Fortunately I've been using Time Machine to back up to a 2nd external drive. How do I restore my libraries to a new external hard drive?

I have been storing my Aperture and IMovie Libraries on an external hard drive that recently died. Fortunately I've been using Time Machine to back up to a 2nd external drive. How do I restore my libraries to a new external hard drive?

This is a tricky one.
Open up Time Machine and go back to a date using the timeline on the right side of the window when you know the drive was working and was backing up as part of Time Machine backups.
Click on the name of your Mac under the Devices heading on the left side of the window in Time Machine, and if things are working correctly you will see Macintosh HD (or whatever you have named it) and the name of the external hard drive that was backing up in the past.
Right-Click on the name of the external hard drive and then click on "Restore (name of drive) to....." You may be asked for your adminstrator password at this point.
It might be easier to restore the drive contents to your desktop if you have room on your Mac, and then copy things over to the new external drive where you want to store the Aperture and iMovie Libraries.
Once the libraries have been moved over the new external hard drive, you will likely need to "point" Aperture and iMovie to the location of the libraries on the new external hard drive.

Updated to Yosemite, no problem. now iPhoto and iMovie won't open. Says I need to update software however, when i try to update indicates my User ID and PW won't work for these two pieces of software. User ID and PW works everywhere else.

Updated to Yosemite, no problem. now iPhoto and iMovie won't open. Says I need to update software however, when i try to update indicates my User ID and PW won't work for these two pieces of software. User ID and PW works everywhere else.

I am having the same problem. I even changed my password and updated all of my security information. Now it just gives me an error and retry message, which of course also does not work. Went to support and was going to open a chat (seemed the simpler option) and received a message that my support has expired for this serial number unless I want to pay $29.00. So I chose the option to call later, which was the exact time suck I was trying to avoid. Why wouldn't the new operating system also update the apps that were already part of my old platform?

Recently upgraded to Mavericks and iMovie '13, and suddenly I'm beach balling like mad?

I upgraded to Mavericks and iMovie '13 recently, and have been working on a video project in iMovie for the last few days. I hadn't been having any issues, but now I'm 'beach-balling' almost constantly, not just in iMovie, but everywhere. Opening a new app (iMovie/Chrome/Safari) will cause beachballs, and sometimes iMovie will fail to launch entirely, appearing as 'Not Responding' in Force Quit. Even using the Finder bar has caused beachballs. I've removed extraneous apps, cleared hard drive space, performed Disk Repair, and am not seeing much improvement. My EtreCheck output is as follows:
EtreCheck version: 1.9.11 (43) - report generated June 12, 2014 at 2:37:47 PM EDT
Hardware Information:
          MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012)
          MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro9,2
          1 2.9 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 2 cores
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Video Information:
          Intel HD Graphics 4000 - VRAM: (null)
System Software:
          OS X 10.9.3 (13D65) - Uptime: 0 days 0:48:8
Disk Information:
          TOSHIBA MK7559GSXF disk0 : (750.16 GB)
                    EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
                    Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 749.3 GB (389.64 GB free)
                    Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
          HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS23N
USB Information:
          Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
          Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
          Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
                    Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
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Thunderbolt Information:
          Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Gatekeeper:
          Mac App Store and identified developers
Kernel Extensions:
          [kext loaded] com.logmein.hamachi (1.0) Support
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Launch Daemons:
          [running] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist Support
          [loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support
          [invalid] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist
Launch Agents:
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          [invalid] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist
User Launch Agents:
          [loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist Support
          [loaded] com.facebook.videochat.[redacted].plist Support
          [loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist Support
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          iTunesHelper
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          AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 11.0.07 - SDK 10.6 Support
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          Flash Player: Version: 13.0.0.214 - SDK 10.6 Outdated! Update
          Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
          JavaAppletPlugin: Version: 14.9.0 - SDK 10.7 Check version
Audio Plug-ins:
          BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9
          AirPlay: Version: 2.0 - SDK 10.9
          AppleAVBAudio: Version: 203.2 - SDK 10.9
          iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9
iTunes Plug-ins:
          Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.4 - SDK 10.9
3rd Party Preference Panes:
          Flash Player Support
Time Machine:
          Time Machine not configured!
Top Processes by CPU:
              11%          iMovie
               6%          Safari
               1%          fontd
               1%          WindowServer
               0%          hidd
Top Processes by Memory:
          408 MB          iMovie
          179 MB          com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
          147 MB          com.apple.IconServicesAgent
          131 MB          Safari
          82 MB          Finder
Virtual Memory Information:
          3.86 GB          Free RAM
          2.44 GB          Active RAM
          889 MB          Inactive RAM
          846 MB          Wired RAM
          800 MB          Page-ins
          0 B          Page-outs
I have had no software issues with my MacBook prior to this (although I did have water damage that was repaired by Apple). If the problem is an issue with Mavericks/iMovie, I wouldn't be opposed to downgrading back to iMovie '11 or Mountain Lion if that's possible, as long as I can maintain my work on this project. I'm really looking for a 'quick and dirty' fix, as I'm already behind on this video project and need to finish as soon as possible. Thanks!

You may find these articles useful:
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14176
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6162
Ciao.

Unable to update iPhoto and iMovie. "Update Unavailable with This Apple ID"

I updated to Yosemite and all went well but for the message "Update Unavailable with This Apple ID" for the two apps iPhoto and iMovie. I have tried using the terminal window and used code that others have suggested and obtained a SmartSearch. I deleted everything in that folder and I still can't update these two apps. The other apps updated without problems. Thanks for any help.

For a couple of years now, the verson of the iLife apps that come preinstalled on new Macs are the Mac App Store (MAS) versions. MAS apps have the Apple ID that bought them encoded in the app as an anti-piracy scheme. Since these apps are preinstalled, before using any of the three apps, the new Mac owner must open the MAS, go to the Purchases pane and accept these apps into their MAS account. This allows the MAS to encode the owners Apple ID into the apps.
Failure to accept these apps into your account and have them encoded with your Apple ID before using one of them renders the apps "as is" and they cannot be updated or downloaded to another Mac. The only way that I know of to rectify the problem is to use OS X Recovery to erase the Mac and reinstall OS X and the iLife apps, so that the initial setup can be attempted again and the apps be accepted into the MAS account and encoded with the Apple ID.

Unable to update iPhoto and iMovie?

When i try to update iPhoto and iMovie, this first message appears: "Update Unavailable with This Apple ID - This update is for an app downloaded with a different Apple ID. Sign in with that Apple ID and try again" so i press ok and a second message appears: "We could not complete your request - There was an error in the App Store. Please try again later. (100)"
Can someone explain me what this error means? and what can i do to fix it?
Thank you

It means what it says: The apps were bought or installed by someone with a different ID to yours. So, in effect, these are belong to that person and you can't update them.
This can arise if you've bought a second hand machine, or if you've bought an open box machine, or even if the Mac was set up for you by the shop where you bought it. Or, if you used one Apple ID to set up the machine and are using a different one now. Of course, it can also be caused by installing pirated software.
So, what to do:
Where did you get the machine? If it was second hand, or open box then you need to get back to the vendor.
If you used a different Apple ID then sign in with that one.
And, if the software is pirated then delete it and purchase legally.
Other than that:
Contact App Store support. There's a link on the right hand side of the App Store Window. They're the only ones who can sort out account issues.

HT4710 Updates for iPhoto and iMovie in the Mac App Store

Hi,
I recently bought a new computer running Lion. When I started using the computer, I opened the Mac App Store and signed in with my Apple ID (the same one I've always used for buying apps from there, music from the iTunes store, and apps for my iPhone). I am able to easily access and download my old purchased apps to my new computer without a problem. However, in the updates section it shows updates available for both iPhoto and iMovie, but when I go to update them I get this message, "To update this application, sign in to the account you used to purchase it." iPhoto and iMovie came on the new computer, and the only Apple ID account that I have ever used is the one that I am currently signed in under. Does anyone have any idea how I can get these updates, or at the very minimum, get rid of them so that they do not show up anymore (frankly, I find the red circle very annoying, and I don't really use either of these apps so I'm not too concerned about them).
Thanks!
Sorry, I found a few other questions about this same thing after posting, so I'll try those solutions.

Open iTunes on the new Mac, sign into your account and view your account information. There is a section for Purchase History where you can view the invoices for everything that you have ever bought from the iTunes stores and the Mac App Store.

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