I am having problems with iMovie on Catalina that I didn't have before. When it is open, it ruins drop down menus in its own application and other open applications.
Exporting a video - it is hard / impossible to select menu items in the splash screen.
Anyone else having these problems?
This may work...
Go to System Preferences->Accessibility->Display and turn off both reduce transparency and increase contrast.
This may work...
Go to System Preferences->Accessibility->Display and turn off both reduce transparency and increase contrast.
It has a look like a broken tv weird background colours and the vague outline of what the text would look like in the menus but very large and just perceptible. And drop down menus in other apps are just blank. All returns to normal when you quit iMovie. A restart doesn’t help things.
thanks
adam
That sounds like a problem that several others have experienced. Try the solution that thesurreyfriends suggested in an earlier post in this thread. The only other solution that I have seen so far that has worked is to restore your previous operating system from your Time Machine backup. The link provided by thesurreyfriends contains posts from others who have had this problem plus several suggestions for solutions, but none worked except for the two mentioned above.
-- Rich
I also have this issue that only occurs when iMovie is opened. After upgrading to Catalina, the drop down menus from the tool bar are hot pink horizontal lines that are un-readable. When reading many articles about "Preparing for Catalina" I did not see any preparation listed for iMovie. A similar issue happened when previously updating to a newer OS. I waited a considerable amount of time with iMovie unusable before a patch fixed the issue. I searched for an updated video driver with no luck.
Please help!
I am having similar problems. Here's a screen shot:
I'm also having the drop down menus issue, and it's only when I exit the program or minimise iMovie that it seems to go away
Can you explain what you mean by "ruin"? What are you seeing? A screen shot would help.
-- Rich
Did you try thesurreyfriends solution posted earlier in this thread? It seems to be the only thing that works.
-- Rich
I just adjusted my accessibility - It fixed the problem! Thank you!!!
Thank you for the replies!
Yes, I did try the fix from "thesurreyfriends" with no luck.
Can you explain how you adjusted "my accessibility?"
My Apologies, I tried a different fix with no luck....
I now went to "thesurreyfriends" fix and it did correct my issue!
Very happy, thank you all!
Thank you for this tip. It is the correct one!
I had the same problem and it was very frustrating as it made iMovie unusable. The answer marked as solved below fixed the problem for me too. Thank you community!
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