Hi
OK - things can go wrong
Especially DO NOT
• Use Video Codecs - iMovie can not use
• Use Photo file formats- iMovie can not use
• Use Audio file formats- iMovie can not use
OK - So What can I not use - there are zillions of possibly MINES out there and to list them would be a monumental task. So I can only tell What I use
• Video - StreamingDV (from miniDV tape Camera) or anything converted to AIC (Apple Interchangeably Codec)
• Photos - ONLY .jpg - Never Ever .bmp
• Audio - ONLY ONLY ! - .aiff 48kHz 16-bit OR from Audio-CD (still .aiff but 44.1kHz) - Never Ever .mp3 or DIRECTLY from iTunes.
- If need material from iTunes - I do - Collect it into a new PlayList. - BURN this as an Audio-CD (YES .aiff ONLY)
THEN - Next thing TO NOT DO - EVER !
• Move or alter any folder named
- iMovie Event's - or -
- iMovie Project's
on DeskTop/Finder
Doing this results in broken connections to iMovie and it can be hard to impossibly to mend !
If You MUST move a Project and/or Event's - DO THIS in the iMovie Application - and all will be safe - as long as that the target Hard Disk is formatted as - Mac OS Extended (hfs) - NOTHING ELSE will Do !
UNIX / DOS / FAT32 / Mac OS Exchange - Works for most other things BUT NOT FOR VIDEO - even if You use FinalCut - It's a NO NO
What I would try - First is
• Go to Apple Menu
• Down to System Pref.
• Select Accounts
• press the PLUS sign and create a new user account
• Log out - and into this
• Now try iMovie and see if it behaves
But as You see - there are to many things that can go wrong - see my following list
When iMovie doesn't work as intended this can be due to a lot of reasons
• iMovie Pref files got corrupted - trash it/they and iMovie makes new and error free one's
• Creating a new User-Account and log into this - forces iMovie to create all pref. files new and error free
• Event or Project got corrupted - try to make a copy and repair
• a codec is used that doesn't work
• problem in iMovie Cache folder - trash Cache.mov and Cache.plist
• version miss match of QuickTime Player / iMovie / iDVD
• preferences are wrong - Repair Preferences
• other hard disk problem - Repair Hard Disk (Disk Util tool - but start Mac from ext HD or DVD)
• External hard disks - MUST BE - Mac OS Extended (hfs) formatted to work with Video
( UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange - works for most other things - but not for Video )
• USB-flash-memories do not work
• Net-work connected hard disks - do not work
• iPhoto Library got problems - let iPhoto select another one or repair it. Re-build this first then try to re-start iMovie.
This You do by
_ close iPhoto
_ on start up of iPhoto - Keep {cmd and alt-keys down}
_ now select all five options presented
_ WAIT a long long time
• free space on Start-Up (Mac OS) hard disk to low (<1Gb) - I never go under 25Gb free space for SD-Video (4-5 times more for HD)
• external devices interferes - turn off Mac - disconnect all of them and - Start up again and re-try
• GarageBand fix - start GB - play a few notes - Close it again and now try iMovie
• Screen must be set to million-colors
• Third-party plug-ins doesn't work OK
• Run "Cache Out X", clear out all caches and restarts the Mac
• Let Your Mac be turned on during one night. At about midnight there is a set of maintenance programs that runs and tidying up. This might help
• Turn off Your Mac - and disconnect Mains - for about 20-30 minutes - at least this resets the FireWire port.
• In QuickTime - DivX, 3ivx codec, Flip4Mac, Perian etc - might be problematic - temporarily move them out and re-try
(I deleted the file "3ivxVideoCodec.component" located in Mac HD/Library/Quicktime and this resolved my issue.)
buenrodri wrote
I solved the problem by removing the file: 3ivxVideoCodec.component. after that, up-dated iMovie runs ok.
Last resort: Trash all of iMovie and re-install it
Yours Bengt W
