iMovie User Interface messed up, projects in danger.
Hello there, and thanks for checking in.
This evening, I was working on a project I had been doing for a few weeks now, with lots of 1080 and 720 footage, tons of effects, settings changed (Generally detailed work, hard to render in RT)
When I was moving around a "Cutout" of a 1080 clip, on top of another 1080, something happened, the UI froze up, save data, I could move the cursor around, but only the video changed. Meaning no playhead, no UI changes, just a video feed of me, scrubbing.
I of corse quit the application, and reopened it, but now... The UI doesn't update on it's own, and the entire project is screwed up. Infact, I can't even check my other projects, cause the buttons do not work, I can play the project and that's it.
Is there anything I can do? Or did a bug in the system ruin my very very old work forever? (I have Time Machine, if THAT works, doubt it)
Here's a picture of how the problem looks (I opened up a few items in the menu-bar to manually refresh the UI, And I have indeed restarted, rebooted, and quit all other apps.) http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g284/allingby/Screenshot2009-09-10at022935.png
If there's something I can do, please help.
If not... Then may I suggest that there should be an option 'Not to auto-save'? I'm pretty ****** off, I can **** well save myself, this is all because iMovie saved on it's own, in a frozen moment!
Sorry for the attitude, but I believe the software is a little "Too easy" to use, and needs fixing, and options.
Hope to get advice soon, as in 24 hours, Time Machine will be out of reach to go back to an hour earlier. Thankyou for your time, Allingby. 🙂
This evening, I was working on a project I had been doing for a few weeks now, with lots of 1080 and 720 footage, tons of effects, settings changed (Generally detailed work, hard to render in RT)
When I was moving around a "Cutout" of a 1080 clip, on top of another 1080, something happened, the UI froze up, save data, I could move the cursor around, but only the video changed. Meaning no playhead, no UI changes, just a video feed of me, scrubbing.
I of corse quit the application, and reopened it, but now... The UI doesn't update on it's own, and the entire project is screwed up. Infact, I can't even check my other projects, cause the buttons do not work, I can play the project and that's it.
Is there anything I can do? Or did a bug in the system ruin my very very old work forever? (I have Time Machine, if THAT works, doubt it)
Here's a picture of how the problem looks (I opened up a few items in the menu-bar to manually refresh the UI, And I have indeed restarted, rebooted, and quit all other apps.) http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g284/allingby/Screenshot2009-09-10at022935.png
If there's something I can do, please help.
If not... Then may I suggest that there should be an option 'Not to auto-save'? I'm pretty ****** off, I can **** well save myself, this is all because iMovie saved on it's own, in a frozen moment!
Sorry for the attitude, but I believe the software is a little "Too easy" to use, and needs fixing, and options.
Hope to get advice soon, as in 24 hours, Time Machine will be out of reach to go back to an hour earlier. Thankyou for your time, Allingby. 🙂
MacBook Pro 15" (Prior Unibody), Mac OS X (10.6), iMovie '09 8.0.4 (807)