Imovie 6.03 in Snow Leopard?

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Imovie 6.03 in Snow Leopard?

My favorite imovie of all is imovie HD (6.03). I found my old ilife 06 disk and installed it on my imac that has snow leopard 10.6.8. The program opens fine and when I'm importing the clips from my sony camcorder, I get the video and audio showing up in the import screen, however, when I'm done with the import, the clips will not play and are just a black screen with no audio in the preview. When I drop the clips into the timeline, same thing, no video or audio, just a black screen. I'm guessing this version of imovie is incompatitlbe with the latest snow leopard? What a bummer, imovie 6 was the best by far...

iMovie '08, Mac OS X (10.6.8), iMovie 6

Posted on Oct 31, 2011 9:05 PM

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Answer 1

Oct 31, 2011 10:34 PM in response to jayfromcentennial

iMovie 6 works just fine in Snow Leopard. It even works in Lion.

Something else is wrong on your machine.

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Answer 2

Nov 1, 2011 11:38 AM in response to QuickTimeKirk

Hello QTKirk,

I've upgraded from my old Power PC G5 to a 27" iMac running Snow Leopard. I too would like to keep my iMovie HD6. I have the iLife 6 disc, but I am wondering if I can simply drag the HD6 app icon from my G5, via firewire, to my new Mac's Applications folder, rather than loading it via the disc.

Thanks, Forest

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Answer 3

Nov 1, 2011 11:47 AM in response to Forest Mccready

Use the iLife DVD to install iMovie 6.

The installer places files all over the system (System folder, Application Support and others). The application itself doesn't "link" to these other folders if they're not already installed and you'll miss out on many of the features.

If you have a newer version of iMovie already installed it will be overwritten. You can then "move" iMovie 6 app to another folder (or make a new one in the Applications folder) and then re-install your most recent version of iMovie.

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Answer 4

Nov 1, 2011 12:58 PM in response to QuickTimeKirk

Thank you!

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Answer 5

Nov 2, 2011 3:24 PM in response to QuickTimeKirk

Thanks for the confirmation that it works QTKirk. Hmm, do you think there's any solution short of erasing my disk? Diskwarrior perhaps?

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Answer 6

Klaus1

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Nov 2, 2011 4:44 PM in response to jayfromcentennial

Happily this is easily achieved, but it has to be done backwards.

Delete iMovie 11 (just drag it to the trash). Now install iMovie 6 from the iLife 6 install disks.

Now re-install iMovie 11. This automatically moves iMovie 6 into a folder it creates in your Applications folder called iMovie Previous Version.

Now you have them both, and you can have both in the Dock as well.

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Answer 7

Nov 4, 2011 8:32 AM in response to Klaus1

Yep, tried that to no avail. iMovie 11 won't import any video (when I hit "done" I get the "generating thumbnails" screen that hangs up and will not go away), and iMovie HD (6.03) imports the video, but the files won't play - just a black screen with no video or audio. I'll try to play the DV files on quicktime and I get a message that the files are not movie files quicktime can open. What's strange is I will then copy those exact DV files onto my old Mac and both quicktime and imovie will open and play them no problem. I have a feeling I have a quicktime issue on my newer mac...

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Answer 8

Klaus1

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Nov 4, 2011 10:00 AM in response to jayfromcentennial

As you are running Snow Leopard you should have two versions of Quicktime.

Mac OS X 10.6 includes QuickTime versions 10.0 and 7.6.3. The QuickTime 7 player will only be present if a QuickTime Pro key was present at the time of installation, or if specified as part of a custom install, or individually downloaded:

http://support.apple.com/kb/dl923

Snow Leopard update 10.6.4 included an update to 7.6.6 (if installed). You can install it from the above link even though it says for 10.6.3. It's the same version of QuickTime Player 7.6.6.

(Only QuickTime Player 7.6.3 or 7.6.6 can be updated to "Pro".)

Make sure you are using QT 7.

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Answer 9

Nov 4, 2011 12:40 PM in response to Klaus1

Sorry I can't award any points here, as I am not the OP of this thread, but it has been most helpful to me, especially finding out from Klaus that I need to get my QT7 (Pro) back onto this new Mac for use with iMovie HD6. I was surprised that my Pro registration from back in 2005 was automatically entered when I downloaded from that support site mentioned by Klaus!

Haven't got to downloading iMovie HD6 on this new computer yet, since I am currently immersing myself in FCE4, but I will want to save the best iMovie version ever made, just in case I need it someday.

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