imovie - timeline has vanished

Hi,

When you have no timeline that means that you are not in an opened project. If that's the case, your screen may look something like this, with media and a preview screen shown but no timeline:

Click on the Projects button at the top of the screen to go to your projects browser screen (where your projects are displayed as icons) and then open your project. See if that solves it.

-- Rich

You are welcome.

You probably can recover your work from the iMovie Backups folder, where you can get a previous backup of your library. .

To get to the iMovie Backups folder, follow this file path from the Finder menu:

Go/Home/Library/Containers/com.apple.iMovieApp/Data/Library/Caches/iMovieBackups

 NOTE:  If running Ventura or later, in the above

file path substitute iMovie for com.apple.iMovieApp.  So, for Ventura,

the file path would read:

Go/Home/Library/Containers/iMovie/Data/Library/Caches/iMovieBackups

When you get there you will see a list of previous backups of your iMovie library.  Click on one dated just before

your issue started.  iMovie will open in that library.   Navigate to your projects browser (where your projects are displayed as icons) and see if your projects are intact. Opening the backup library will not overwrite your original library.

-- Rich