Stabilization- Max Zoom slider not showing up.

Found this thread late, but hoping I can help someone with one small insight.

Firstly, due to past successes with identical set-ups, I am unwilling to believe that not getting a slider, despite stabilisation being applied, is caused by:

- my camera

- the too perfect, or too imperfect, footage captured

- the output resolution of my project

- my inability to recognise red squiggles or use iMovie competently

My process was this:

1. during my original import of 250 clips, I managed to fill the drive with about 150 of them. iMovie stopped importing, and two weeks later with a new 3Tb disc I re-started

2. all 150 previously imported clips, and the remaining 100 newly imported clips, showed the symptom described - claims to be stabilised, doesn't look it, no squiggly red lines in event browser, and no variability (ie slider) allowed

My insight was this:

- for one particularly unbearable clip, I just re-imported it, requesting the automatic stabilisation... and it worked just as it usually does

- that clip had red squiggles in the event browser, had a slider in the Inspector, and most importantly made this handheld idiot look like he'd spent a week installing a track for this pan-zoom-mivng camera shot. None of those were true of the original import.

To be clear there was:

- no change of camera

- no change of clip

- no deleting prefs

- no reinstalling the system

- not even a change of disc drive (since the new imports also suffered from the problem)

All I did was re-import, a small amount a time.

Hope this helps!

One further note.

For subsequent clips, I did not have to re-import at all:

1. Right click on the clip, and select Reveal in Finder

2. Ignore the clip, but open the folder iMovie Stabilization

3. Delete the contents

4. Restart iMovie (unfortunately, this is necessary)

5. Right click the clip again and choose Analyze video -> Stabilization

If you have already used the clip in your film, you will need to unapply stabilization, then reapply it.

Thaks, it worked! So happy after many days of searching for solution!