Stuck at Generating Thumbnails

Almost every time I import from my cameras it gets stuck on Generating Thumbnails. It will first say Time Remaining: 2 minutes, and then it will say 2 hours or more and just spin. I have to Force Quit. This time I can't get past this? What should I try?

I'm still stuck on Generating Thumbs. I guess I'll have to call support.

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My iMovie11 is stuck on generating thumbnails. Timer increases rather than decreases.Have to force quit.

You might be able to trick iMovie by temporarily moving that project folder out of the following location:
Mac HD > Users > (your home folder) > Movies > iMovie Projects > (look for the name of the project that blew-up)
Drag that project folder to the Desktop for the time being. Launch iMovie and see if it still tries to create the Project Thumbnails. If it gets past any error messages or other house keeping, you can create a new project. Otherwise, quit iMovie. Drag that project folder from the desktop BACK into your iMovie Projects folder. Try launching iMovie again and see if it gets stuck generating the Thumbnails.

Stuck on "Generating Thumbnails"

I upgraded from the previous version of iLife to iLife '11 today and when I went to use iMovie it has been stuck generating thumbnails all day.
I'm running 10.6.4 and have 4 GB of ram on an iMac. I also have 78 gigs of free space.
Is anyone else having this issue?

Solution for Me: Follow all the above and then open and leave open, iPhoto before opening iMovie.
Background: Attempted to open iMovie-11 after a three week break, only to see it freeze after authorising it to make new Thumbnails of the videos in iPhoto. Allowed 15mins in case it was actually working behind the scenes before 'force-quitting.'
The pattern was repeated many times despite meticulously following all the advice on this thread and several others around the forum. Nothing seemed to fix the snag with many valuable hours wasted.
Usually when solving issues, I close all programmes not directly related to the problem app. (I resaon that memory and resources are better 'concentrated') I recalled that iMovie initially grounded when trying to make thumbnails of my iPhoto videos I think after an update. So out of curiosity I opened iPhoto and iMovie loaded safely. iMovie did stumble one more time after replacing the suspected errant folders from my desktop into the Users / iMovie folder, (as in Bruce EBonus excellent suggestion above) but another 'repair permissions' and re-boot and everything has been fine since.
I hope this helps anyone suffering the same issue.

IMovie 11 stuck on "generating thumbnails"

I have 1 TB of movies that worked fine in iMovie09. I open iMovie11 and it gets stuck like in the attached photo.
1. I tried using it after every upgrade, it never worked.
2. iMovie11 works fine with newly imported movies (tape/DV, AVI, MOV, etc) - imports them fine, doesn't get stuck.
3. I could move the old movies to a different directory (not iMovie Events) and import them in iMovie11, but I hate the idea. It took forever to import 500GB from iMovie06/HD into iMovie09 and I accepted it as a one-time backward incompatibility. I expected iMovie11 to be backward compatible with iMovie09.
My question is why does it get stuck and how to fix it. Other than reimporting 100 DV tapes or iMovie 09 events?
Thanks in advance.

Hi
Me just thinking
• Panic Halts = error builds up on Hard Disk - I always do a
- Repair Permissions (Disk Util tool) - and -
- Repair Hard Disk ( I start my Mac from install DVDs and select Disk Util tool from this - as it can not mend the a Disk with a running Mac OS (brain surgery on one self is not recommended))
• Generating Thumbnails
- Can take LONG TIME - I just let it be to do it's job
- If ridiculously long time >2 hour even > one day - then in my cases it's been due to a too full Hard Disk.
I never let Main Start-Up (Mac OS) Hard disk go less than 25Gb free space - ever.
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Stuck on generating thumbnails for imported footage

I've got a problem with importing DV footage from a camcorder using Firewire. In my preferences, I have selected all analysis options. It's my understanding that FCP is supposed to automatically analyze the footage as it's being recorded to disk.
So, after the import process from tape completes and I close the import window, I don't see any evidence of analysis having completed, or even begun. There are no smart folders for People and Synchronization as evidence. When I go to view the background tasks, I see that Transcoding and Analysis is stuck at 0%, while Rendering (specifically, Generating Thumnails) is shown as an active task, but no progress percentage is displayed. And it seems to be stuck like that forever, even if I leave my speedy new quad core alone for hours. I don't know how long this process is supposed to take (I only import up to an hour of DV clips at a time), and whether the analysis is supposed to start after rendering thumbnails is complete, but FCP is giving no indication that it's making any progress at all, which is disconcerting.
The only remedy seems to be to close FCP, re-open it, and then manually choose Analyze and Fix on all the clips in the event browser, which then seems to work. And without a generating thumbnails phase.

Solution for Me: Follow all the above and then open and leave open, iPhoto before opening iMovie.
Background: Attempted to open iMovie-11 after a three week break, only to see it freeze after authorising it to make new Thumbnails of the videos in iPhoto. Allowed 15mins in case it was actually working behind the scenes before 'force-quitting.'
The pattern was repeated many times despite meticulously following all the advice on this thread and several others around the forum. Nothing seemed to fix the snag with many valuable hours wasted.
Usually when solving issues, I close all programmes not directly related to the problem app. (I resaon that memory and resources are better 'concentrated') I recalled that iMovie initially grounded when trying to make thumbnails of my iPhoto videos I think after an update. So out of curiosity I opened iPhoto and iMovie loaded safely. iMovie did stumble one more time after replacing the suspected errant folders from my desktop into the Users / iMovie folder, (as in Bruce EBonus excellent suggestion above) but another 'repair permissions' and re-boot and everything has been fine since.
I hope this helps anyone suffering the same issue.

Imovie 9.09 unable to generate thumbnails on my iMac running 10.6.8

I'm trying to digitise camcorder footage currently saved on vhs tape. Although I'm now using a 27"iMac running Yosemite, I don't have the usb lead with the std usb connector on the computer end to connect the digitiser to it, so I'm using my old iMac running 10.6.8 and iMovie 9 as I have the correct lead for that iMac.
I did a test one minute file transfer and this digitised, opening it in iMovie 10, ok so I saved it onto a USB stick and transferred it to the 27" iMac though without any content displayed in the clip. Even so, it plays ok so I'd be content if the remaining tapes got digitised with this problem. But.....
When I tried to import 2 hours as one file the conversion appeared to be going ok until I stopped it. I then got a message saying that it was generating thumbnails and would take a minute. this changed to 2, then 9, then 2 hours, then 4 hours. After it had been running for 12 hours with no change in the 4 hours estimated for generating the thumbnails i did a force quite, then tried to get back into iMovie.
When it opened, it went straight into generating thumbnails, estimating the time needed as 9 minutes. It's now been stuck on "less than a minute" for about 30 mins so I'm about to do another force quit.
All suggestions welcomed, ideally to generate thumbails in the shortest time possible - though I'd be content just to get the file transferred with no thumbnails.
Advice please.

Save the photos to the camera roll on the iPad, then connect it to your computer with a USB cable. You can import the photos using iPhoto if you have it or image capture if you don't.

IMovie11 hangs, freezes while generating thumbnails

Often after importing MiniDV tapes using iMovie11 the progress bar for generating thumbnails gets to a certain point and then stops. It will remain this way for over a day unless I Force Quit the application.
The event directory and thumbnail directory of the imported tape do not show any recently created files after a while.
A search on the internet revealed one workaround - delete any zero-byte DV files that iMovie creates and reload iMovie.This worked for a couple of tapes but now I am stuck while importing other tapes.
I am not using Stabilization.
As of this writing, I may have narrowed the problem down to the number of DV files that iMovie creates. For some reason, with those other tapes, it creates almost 2000 such files for a simple 90-minute tape. When I delete over a 1000 of the smallest DV files iMovie will complete the generation of thumbnails.
I have not yet tested what happens if I delete over a 1000 of the largest DV files.
If I import the same tape twice, the two imports will produce a different number of DV files, the difference is in the hundreds but both data sets are still too large for iMovie11 to generate thumbnails from.
I have tried using two different camcorders for importing those other tapes without positive results.
I have a new low-end Mac Pro with the OS present as of Oct of last year (when I bought the computer), 8GB of RAM, 600MB of free disk space, and I use a Firewire adapter to convert the 400 mbps connection coming out of the camcorders to the 800 mbps connection integral to my Mac Pro.
I have tried powering down and back up to remove variables involving the OS and Firewire interface.
I have no other movie projects or events present in iMovie when I conduct my imports.
How do I get iMovie11 to stop hanging, freezing while it generates thumbnails?
Thank you.

Absolutely has to be a bug. This isn't a setting or configuration problem. It might even be a Snow Leopard problem. I had the same problems with A2.1.4 on SL as I do with version A3.0.1. Export hangs seem to happen on images that came from my A2 library that was imported into A3 but originally adjusted in A2. These images were imported from scanned TIFF files. If the adjustment mechanism was flawed in prior Aperture versions then Apple needs to create and distribute a utility that converts these images into something that A3 can use.
I will have to revert to A2 running on Leopard until Apple can get this fixed. If I cannot export, there is no point in running the software. On this discussion thread, we are just trying to fly by flapping our arms.

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Starting yesterday, PSE9 organizer is constantly generating thumbnails. And very slow to show images. I let it run all night and it was still "generating thumbnails" even though all showed. Looks like it's stuck in a loop. What to do?

I think this is due to loop caused by corrupt files in the file list that got through the screening process.
If you exit during this loop it sometimes leaves the elementsorganiser.exe running as a an orphaned process and the you may not be able to restart the organiser unless you kill the process or re-boot
The loop often continues even if you kill the process or re-boot.
I have found three fixes:
1. Try and find the corrupt files and remove them from the organiser, time consuming if you have a large number of files.
2. Delete all the files in the catalogue.
3. Create a new catalogue and open it, then try a repair on the original catalogue.
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No matter what I do aperture is stuck on generating previews for 13 files. Canceling the task does not help. In fact after canceling I have to force quit aperture. And when I start it up again the same 13 files are being updated, but as usual the 13 files do not count down to zero but stay stuck on 13. I have no idea on how to find these 13 files that are supposedly being updated.
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fotoguy wrote:
No matter what I do aperture is stuck on generating previews for 13 files. Canceling the task does not help. In fact after canceling I have to force quit aperture. And when I start it up again the same 13 files are being updated, but as usual the 13 files do not count down to zero but stay stuck on 13. I have no idea on how to find these 13 files that are supposedly being updated.
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Batch process to generate thumbnail pictures from a long raw column

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I need to generate thumbnail pictures from already existing pictures. The existing pictures are stored in a long raw column, the option to convert to BLOB col is not possible at the moment so I'm stuck with long raws.
Is there an easy way to generate those new pictures? do I have to build a form to download the picture, resize it and then upload it to the db in a loop for 16,000 pictures?
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TS3391 iMovie 11 is not working. I try to open it and it says it is generating thumbnails for one of my previous projects. All the commands are gray. I have to force it to quit. I just want to capture clips to start a new project.

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I just installed imovie 08, and I have a couple of problems/questions.
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2) After some video is imported the computer takes a long time "generating Thumbnails". This never happened with iMovie HD.
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Hi There
I'm wondering is it possible to generate thumbnails of individual pages of a FrameMaker document programmatically, using the FDK?
I've had a look through the FDK reference document but couldn't find anything relevant.
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FM doesn't have any thumbnails created or stored internally, so you would have to create a plug-in that rasterizes the page and stores it in a FrameImage format in an allowable container.
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