Q: iPhoto Chrashes Importing Movies
I have an early 2008 24" iMac 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4GB RAM. I dropped a 2TB SATA HD in it, and everything works perfectly...except iPhoto and iMovie.
I am currently running iPhoto 11 9.4.2 & iMovie 9.0.8
For the last 4 months iPhoto and iMovie have crashed the moment they were launched. I remember hearing that there was a third party codec that was wreaking havok on Macs, so I searched for anything that was installed on this machine in the past and deleted suspect apps. The problem persisted.
So on a hunch I removed all .AVI and .MOV files from my iPhoto Library and placed them in a folder on my desktop. That allowed iPhoto to launch, but it was quitting in the middle of imports from my iPhone 4. After examining the the iPhoto Library and comparing it to the photos and movies on my iPhone's Camera Roll, I discovered that as soon as iPhoto encountered a movie shot on my iPhone 4, iPhoto would crash and display the massive log file.
So now i am forced to select only photos to import off of my iPhone, and the movies I have are in limbo till I discover how to fix this. iMovie crashes immediately to this day, and I can't find an answer anywhere.
There are 3 accounts on this machine; mine, my girlfriends, and a stagnent admin account.
Several, Mac OS X (10.6.1)
Posted on Dec 20, 2012 9:56 PM

