Thumbnail corruption in Events library and timeline

I am seeing thumbnail corruption in my events library and timeline. Several thumbnails of jpg images that I imported into the library are showing up as corrupted - color bands and whatnot. When dragged to the timeline the same thing. But when I play them in a storyline, everything is ok. I can ignore it but has anyone else experienced this issue. I am using 10.0.3 on a MacPro running Lion.

Hi Tom, Thank you for your reply. Please forgive my ignorance. I did try to find the answer here but I am new at this. Could you direct me to that thread please? Yes the external hard drive is used for time machine and I did see something at one time regarding an issue but evidently it didnt sink in or stick. The drive is a g-raid I have had for several years used on a macbook pro but now I have a new imac and fcpx. works fine with all other apps, when the drive came out of the box it said preformatted and just ran with it.

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I have a clip that is upsidedown and want to flip it in the event library and then work on clips. Can I do that? Is all editing available in the event library?
Also, when I flip my upsidedown image in the timeline (not where I wanted to do it), the thumbnails don't flip even after it's done rendering. Is there a fix for this?
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somanna wrote:
Hello Luis,
Did what you wrote and it is indeed done. BTW, the timeline which appears when we do this procedure, what of it? Will it be a separate 'project' on the timeline or will it go away once such editing is done?
This is the timeline for that specific clip. In FCP X each clip can be opened in its own timeline.
If you again select the same clip in the event libraryand choose "open in timeline" there you'll have it.

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(I looked in iMovie Help menu but found no help.)
I recently did a file transfer from my Sanyo HD2000A which was a large accumulation of clips taken since last spring 2010. This was my first upload.
Now I have a lot of clips organized by date by iMovie '11. There are various categories of these clips, and one of them is +"Ducks in my back yard swimming pool."+ Another is a huge number of clips taken over time of three baby sparrows in the nest outside my window. It is a progression of how they are fed by their parents and how they grow and leave.
My plan is to get them into their own folders, filed by time/recency, and then pick and choose from those two folders/categories during the making of a movie which includes them along with other little adventures.
Question: How can I separate all of the duck clips and the sparrow clips so that they are each in their own folder and not spread out in folders organized by days?
=L

Lorna, I think I understand better now what you are talking about.
So on any one clip, it will be ducks, or sparrows, but not both.
You can create a folder in the Event Library called Ducks and another folder called Sparrows. These must be in the Movies/iMovie Events folder on your internal drive, or they must be in the iMovie Events folder at the top level of an external drive.
Go through your current Event folders. Drag the duck clips to the duck folder. Drag the Sparrow clips to the Sparrow folder. I would do a MOVE, but if you have enough disk space, you could do this as a COPY until you are sure that all works as you intend.
The next time you open iMovie, it will generate thumbnails and cache for these new Duck and Sparrow events. The events will be placed in the Event Library in the month of the most recent clip, even though the clips may span several months.
If all goes well, you can delete the prior events. If there is footage still in them (that is not sparrows or ducks, for example), you could delete the thumbnails and cache folders and let iMovie regenerate thumbnails and cache after it opens.
Also, Tom's advice about not moving or renaming anything you have already used is very appropriate...
If you have already created Projects using this material, this will break the links in your projects. (Unless you did a COPY rather than a MOVE above and left both the old and new folders intact.)

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I have ten macbooks for my class of thrity kids. We have two users on the computer Admin and Student. All students use the student side, every time imovie opens it gets old footage and events from iphoto and by the end of each term there is 8 to 10 gigs of footage on the go at any one time. imovie HD allowed save, file open and movement of movies. imovie 08/09 seems brilliant for snow boarders and you tubers but not the classroom. Really we would love an editing package that allows attachment of camera and work for a couple of weeks on a project while others do the same thing on the same mac. Please don't suggest multiple users we have over 200 macs and 600 students.

Without multiuser, the only of having an exclusive event library for each student would be either external drive, or a blank disk image to store iMovie events. I can imagine a large network drive that has 50GB size disk images for each students. You mount your image to work with your footage.
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ITunes has recently began corrupting my music library and my Podcasts. An exclamation mark has appeared at the beginning of a random number of songs and against some Podcasts with the result that they will not play on iTunes. Message is that iTunes cannot

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After upgrading to iLife '09, I noticed something odd in the new iMovie. All of my clips (recorded with a Sanyo Xacti HD1A and imported into the previous version of iPhoto DO show up in the event library, but DO NOT play any sound in the event library. If I copy a clip or move it up to the project editor the audio plays there. Does anyone know why I am getting no audio for these clips in the event library or what can be done to correct the issue?
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Finally got some sound on the clips in my iMovie '09 event library. This is what worked here: I went into the Pictures folder and showed the package contents of the "iPhoto Library". I went into the "Data" folder. I went to a "2008" folder. I located the folder of the first video clip I had for the holiday footage... "Dec 14, 2008". Inside that was a QuickTime file "SANY0001" and a JPEG "SANY0001.jpg". I zipped up the "Dec 14, 2008" folder. I dragged the folder to the trash. I dragged the .zip file out to the desktop.
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I'm not really sure why this worked the way it did. The time it took to generate the new thumbnail was ONLY for the one clip... so it seems rather odd that all the subsequent clips in the event library started to work. Perhaps I just got lucky and it is only that first clip that was throwing everything else off in the thumbnails... or maybe iMovie just looks at the first clip in the event library to determine if it is playing sound or not for all of them?
Another oddity? The original SANY0001 file is "17.2 MB". The new one, which appears to be exactly the same in quality, is "10.8 MB". The "More Info" section reveals a bit more that might be of interest. The original is Codecs: Photo - JPEG, Integer (Big Endian). The new one is Codecs: Photo - JPEG, Integer (Little Endian). Total bit rate in the original is 2,570. In the new one it is 1,605.
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Hi there ...
I haven't used imovie 08 for quite a while ... and I've forgotten how to do a major step .. which is leading to a lot of frustration. I need to drag all my thumbnails into the project library and have them available for editing. ANy way I try it now .... it seems to create one big clip in the project library .. so when I want to add a title or something ... when I drag it over to the clip ... it selects to add to the whole movie. Somehow I need to retain the individual thumbnails or clips ... so when I try to add effects it is just added to one clip ... not all of them ...
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Move the .plist file to the trash and restart iMovie
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You should see here: Media management 10.1.2
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I am studying the iMovie '11 Help to figure out *how to re-organize my Events Library*. One lesson is How to move a clip from one Event to another. It says:
+To move video clips from one Event to another:+
+In the Event Library, click to select the Event with the video you want to move.+
+In the Event browser, select the clip or clips you want to move.+
+Drag the clips to the name of the other Event in the Event Library to which you want to move them.+
+Release the mouse button when you see the name of the Event highlighted.+
+Click OK.+
_My question is_, *Can I create a brand new folder in the Events Library and move clips from various other events into that new folder?* I ask because the Help explanation explains that we can move clips from one folder to another (existing) folder but it does not mention the possibility of creating a totally brand new folder.
Example: In five folders/Events, I have footage of various themes: (1) My dog watching ucks in the pool, (2) Inside the house new furniture, (3) My dog inside the house, (4) Baby birds in a nest growing up and leaving the nest. (5) Children laughing in bed.
There are five Events with a jumble of all of those themes. In this case, I will end up with five folders and five themes, so I will have to only rename the folders, BUT *what about the cases where I need more folders? Is it ok to create a new folder for those clips taken from other Events?*
I ask because I have been told over and over that iMovie is a very sensitive program that doesn't want us to be fiddling with the contents, or that we have to fiddle with them only while working in iMovie. I want to make sure that what I described is a legitimate kind of fiddling around, and not one which will lose me footage and audio as happened to me about ten years ago (after which I quit iMovie for a long time.)
-L
Message was edited by: Lorna from Hawaii

Hi Lorna,
for quite a while, I'm watching with admiration and a good portion of amusement (no offense meant!) your tenacity to win the struggle with movie-making in general and iM in special ...
in this case, we have to get less 'practical' advice, but more 'concept thinking':
in real-life, people like to store things in drawers - there's a drawer for socks, another for shirts. What if you need red socks for a red shirt? you have to search manually in both drawers.
now, computers: since iTunes, Apple tries to teach people to use tags: there's a big basket with socks AND shirts, but each has tags, (sock, red, wool, old, holes ... ). A computer is much faster than you to organize this mess: one click 'red' and you instantly get any red socks and red shirts!
back to movie making:
what you want is drawers (=folders), you can manually organize. The Big Brother of iMovie, FinalCut call them bins.
but you'll find in iM a knob with a key on it - KEYWORDS (tags)! it allows to tag each clip, or part of, with as much keywords you like ... hmm, you need.
the better you apply keywords to clips (and iM allows to use your very own keywords, adding 'dogs', 'birds', 'socks ...), the better - and faster - you'll find material for your Projects!
it is very different to real-life, and we do this discussion with ANY 'switcher', who doesn't trust that concept when importing their 45GBs/thousand 'drawers' music Libraries ... or, same in iPhoto.
face recognition is such a thing ... = I have to organize thousands of pics from my son's soccer team - the computer identifies in seconds each member of the team; a click later, I get all stills showing Player #2.... that is MUCH easier than manually searching in dozens of folders (2009? 2010? April? December? The Big Match? Training? ... )
... spend some time off the computer with a pencil and some sheets of paper. what are YOUR keywords? what are the properties, you're most searching of? make a list of your keywords. consider future usage too. and, you can add additional keywords later. keep it simple & short - after finding all 'birds' clips, you can search for the robin manually ...
summary:
Events are meant for a 'time' structure, not content.
Use Keywords.
have fun ...

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I make movie montages (or supercuts as they're more widely known) and I'm constantly running into this issue. Here's my workflow:
1) Convert movie to .mp4 using Handbrake
2) Extract clip from converted movie using MPEG Streamclip
3) Import clip into FCPX
In FCPX I have the project's framerate set to 23.98 at 1280x720. When converting a movie to .mp4, I set the framerate to 23.976 (NTSC) in Handbrake.
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Mid 2011 Mac Mini
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Memory 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Graphics AMD Radeon HD 6630M 256 MB
Software OS X 10.8.2 (12C60)

You could do the MP4 to PR .mov conversion in Streamclip or Compressor.
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