Imported one movie without trouble...but can't import anything since

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Imported one movie without trouble...but can't import anything since

I have iMovie6 on my G4 Powerbook (Ti). I used iMovie for the first time the other day and imported an hour long vacation video...all 11 gigs. It worked flawlessly...but I decided I had bitten off a little more than I cared to chew...and edit(and hogged more of my hard drive than I wanted to), so I deleted the file. Now I'm trying to import some shorter movies...10 minutes or so....but I can't. I hook up the camera, open iMovie, and see the video on both the computer screen and the camcorder screen (Sony mini). I click "play" and it plays fine. Then I hit the spacebar to stat importing and it...starts...chopping...along...for a second or two, and then stops. It's as though I don't have enough RAM (I only have 512)...but considering I imported 11 gigs without a hiccup a day before, I can't help but believe it's related to that. Any thoughts? I'd really like to use iMovie! One clue that it has something to do with the big movie I deleted...my hard drive indicates I lost over a gig of free space after importing/delteting the file. Are there hidden files clogging things up? Thanks in advance

15" Ti G4 Powerbook Mac OS X (10.3.2)

Posted on Jul 12, 2007 2:45 PM

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Answer 1

F Shippey

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Jul 12, 2007 3:11 PM in response to Maui Todd

so I deleted the file

In iMovie? If so, there is a good chance that you didn't actually remove the movie from your hard drive unless you actually deleted the iMovie project.

How much free space do you see on your hard drive?

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Maui Todd Author

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Jul 12, 2007 4:08 PM in response to F Shippey

Thanks for checking...I (think I) deleted the file and the project. When I first started downloading the movie my hard drive said I had 39 gigs free. After deleleting the 11 gig project, my hard drive says I have 37 gigs free. Is there a "project file" somewhere other than the "movie" folder?

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F Shippey

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Jul 12, 2007 4:24 PM in response to Maui Todd

Thanks for checking...I (think I) deleted the file
and the project. When I first started downloading
the movie my hard drive said I had 39 gigs free.
After deleleting the 11 gig project, my hard drive
says I have 37 gigs free. Is there a "project file"
somewhere other than the "movie" folder?

By default, the project should go in the 'Movie' folder. Have you done an actual shut down and restart? This should eliminate and residual temp file from the project.

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Maui Todd Author

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Jul 12, 2007 4:31 PM in response to F Shippey

I did shut down and restart...but you know, that may be part of the problem. After I had imported the movie, it went into "saving mode" and kept saving...all night...in the morning, 8 hours later it was still saving. I had to "force quit" iMovie...is that when I shot myself in the foot?

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F Shippey

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Jul 12, 2007 5:00 PM in response to Maui Todd

If I do something like that, I always boot from my operating system install disc (hold down c key while restarting) and run the Disk Utility Repair Disk function to make sure the disk file structure is OK.

What version of OS-X are you running - your profile doesn't say.

See Disk Utility 10.5 Help (Mac OS X 10.4) - Testing and repairing your startup disk at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=DiskUtility/10.5/en/duh1018.html for more information.

F Shippey

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Maui Todd Author

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Jul 12, 2007 5:30 PM in response to F Shippey

Thanks F Shippey...that will be a big help. I'm running 10.4.10....I'll update my profile

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Maui Todd Author

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Aug 13, 2007 1:12 AM in response to Maui Todd

Well...nothing did the trick, though I thank everyone for the assistance offered. I finally gave in and did a clean re-install and started from fresh.

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