Why won't my iMovie 12 respond on startup?

I updated my MacBook Pro to OS X Mavericks a few months ago and my iMovie 12 was working fine after the update. Until, I was recording sound effects for a project and my iMovie froze. I tried force quitting the application and reopening it to see if anything changes, but it still wouldn't open. I've serached the internet for solutions to fix this problem and I came across deleting all my iMovie plist files and repairing disk permissions on disk utility. I tried both of these and my iMovie still won't open.
Someone please help me!
Thanks

Check your server files and make sure the movie actually uploaded; the controller could be there without the movie itself.
The html editing is basically the same, whether it's hosted on your iDisk or a remote server. In your case, navigate to the .js files for that particular page using any text editor (I like Taco, and it's free) and make the following changes to the script code that controls your movie: (you will find the movie code near the top of the page in the .js file)
Change autoplay="false" to autoplay="true"
Change loop="false" to loop="true"
Changing controller value="true" to controller value="false" will remove the controller from the page entirely. Make these changes in both sets of tags, (object and embed).
Make the changes and just "Save". (Now would be a good time to duplicate the modified .js file so you don't have to do this again the next time you make updates to that page.)
Now upload these changed files to your server, clear your browser cache and you should see the changes.
Mark

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