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Ian Sinclair Author

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Imovie media disappeared from the event.

Clips that were in my event have been replaced with a "missing camera" message.

I found the clips in the iMovie library, by right-clicking and selecting "show package contents". The videos were there, so I copied them to a different folder and tried to import them into a new event. That failed, yielding only a message that I must import/reimport the file.

So, I copied the MVI-****.mov files back onto the camera flash card and then imported them again into a new event.

That seems to have worked, so far.

My questions are:

1: Why does this happen? and

2. Is there a way to restore the clips to the event without going through that. I mean, the clips are clearly right there in the library.

Thanks.

iMac 27" 5K, macOS 10.13

Posted on Feb 16, 2020 3:49 PM

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Rich839

Level 8

47,850 points

Posted on Feb 16, 2020 5:22 PM

Your first import was terminated before the import process completed. When that happens the only solution is to reimport like you did. Good work.

— Rich

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