richardfromnewplymouth
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Q: iMovie 10.1.2 won't create new movie project

I've got iMovie 10.1.2 running on El Capitan 10.11.4.  It was working just fine and about a week ago it stopped allowing me to create a new movie.  I can create a trailer, but not a movie.  It doesn't matter if I click on the new movie button on the projects screen, go to file>new movie or use command N - none of them work. I've uninstalled and reinstalled but problem persists.  I've also restarted holding the option key to erase preferences.  Any other suggestions???  Thanks.

iMovie 10, OS X El Capitan (10.11.4)

Posted on May 11, 2016 1:38 PM

by gavenfromcupertino,Apple recommended
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A:

I JUST SOLVED THIS WITH SOMEONE!!!!

 

I Have not been able to verify this, because I've only ever seen it on one computer, but the fix that IMMEDIATELY fixed the problem.

Step -1: BACKUP YOUR DATA!!!!

 

1. Quit iMovie

2. Go to your movies folder (or wherever IMovie library is held)

3. Right click iMovie library and "show package contents"

4. Find and trash "Settings.plist"

5. Open iMovie again and it should work!

 

worked for me here having the same symptoms: trailers were working but not movies, we even did a full erase and install and it didn't solve the issue because we brought back the library from a backup.

 

hope this helped!

Posted on May 24, 2016 5:43 PM

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  • by WeeWoo222,

    WeeWoo222 WeeWoo222 Jul 13, 2016 11:49 AM in response to gavenfromcupertino
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    Jul 13, 2016 11:49 AM in response to gavenfromcupertino

    Was experiencing the same symptoms: "New trailer" worked, but not "new movie".

     

    My experience: Deleting Settings.plist on its own did not solve the problem. However, after closing iMovie again, re-deleting "Setting.plist", then deleting a ghost folder "My Movie" and "CurrentVersion.flexolibrary", I was able to then create a new movie upon re-launching the app!

     

    My ignorant theory: When the "Create new movie" command is issued, a new folder is created called "My Movie" until you rename the folder from within the iMovie App. However, if a glitch occurs, and the "My Movie" folder is created without the users knowledge, when the user goes to execute that "create new movie" command, iMovie doesn't know how to handle the request because the folder "My Movie" already exists.

  • by MichelaVonBatgirl,

    MichelaVonBatgirl MichelaVonBatgirl Aug 2, 2016 9:45 AM in response to richardfromnewplymouth
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    Aug 2, 2016 9:45 AM in response to richardfromnewplymouth

    In case the selected answer doesn't work (it didn't for me), create a trailer, convert the trailer to a movie and erase all the trailer content. It's annoying that we have to find a workaround, but at least we did!

  • by BoobooCurley,

    BoobooCurley BoobooCurley Sep 3, 2016 1:47 PM in response to gavenfromcupertino
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    Sep 3, 2016 1:47 PM in response to gavenfromcupertino

    nope, couldn't find settings.plist

  • by matt_mcleod,

    matt_mcleod matt_mcleod Sep 4, 2016 7:35 PM in response to AlexShul
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    Sep 4, 2016 7:35 PM in response to AlexShul

    Thanks AlexShul, this extra step worked for me too.  I had to delete the "My Movie" folders in my libraries to create a new project.

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