iMovie Clips and Images look underexposed when imported

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iMovie Clips and Images look underexposed when imported

For some reason every time I import a clip or image into my iMovie project the colors change so that the clip or image looks slightly overexposed and then every time I open the project the issue repeats itself and alters all the clips and images again blowing them out even more. This is not just an editor issue, if i proceed to export the movie the issue persists within the exported movie so the images are still blown out. What's even more strange is that in the thumbnail on the timeline the image looks normal. I am currently running macOS High Sierra using iMovie '11 version 9.0.8

I have made sure that there are no settings on that could auto alter or color correct. If anyone has had this issue or can help me solve it please let me know.

Mac Pro, macOS 10.13

Posted on Apr 13, 2020 9:37 AM

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Rich839

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Apr 13, 2020 2:15 PM in response to ZcWick

iMovie 9 does not function properly on operating systems after El Capitan. Bleached out videos was one of the problems as I recall. That’s probably what is causing the issue you are experiencing.

One solution is to revert back to an earlier operating system. That would be regressing rather then moving forward. The better solution is to sign in to the app store and upgrade iMovie 9 to iMovie 10. You can still keep iMovie 9 on your computer and use it. If you download iMovie 10, you can, from within the app, update your iMovie 9 projects and events to iMovie 10 projects that you can then edit. iMovie 10 has a very different architecture and user interface than iMovie 9, so there will be a learning curve.

One possible workaround would be to reduce the resolution of the clips and see if that helps.

— Rich

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ZcWick Author

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Apr 13, 2020 9:54 PM in response to Rich839

Rich,

Thank you for the reply. Upgrading to iMovie 10 did correct the issue.

But if anyone else out there is reading this and having issues updating to iMovie 10 on High Sierra (macOS 10.13.6) perhaps because the app store will only show them an incompatible version (as it was doing with me). Right click on iMovie in your applications list and move iMovie to the trash. Then go into the app store and download iMovie. It will tell you that the current version is incompatible but will say it can download and install the last version that is compatible (it should be iMovie 10). Hit ok and it will do the rest.

Hope this helps for any one else and thank you again Rich.

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Rich839

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Apr 13, 2020 11:13 PM in response to ZcWick

You are welcome. 😊

— Rich

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iMovie Clips and Images look underexposed when imported

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