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why is iMovie so slow?

im making a short film, it working fine yesterday, when i tried to edit it this morning it froze repeatedly when trying to edit clips and taking forever to drag and move things about. I haven't added anything new since yesterday... what happened overnight?! HELP. Many thanks, Jess

Posted on Apr 4, 2012 3:27 AM

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Aug 17, 2015 5:02 AM in response to Jcoupe

I got the same problem and I finally found the solution. The cause of the problem might be that I created only one project file. Then I created a video clip and export the clip. After the job is done, I deleted all the raw data files and create a new video clip again and again. Over and over. Even though I have deleted all the raw data files but it seems like iMovie still keep it and never really delete it from the database.


The solution is to create a new project file and delete all the old project files. That's all that I did to fix this problem. If this doesn't work, then go to "movies" folder. You will see the project file (the one that has "film" icon). Delete it. Back to iMovie and create a new project again.


I hope this comment can fix your problem.

why is iMovie so slow?

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