Mid 2007 iMac video card does not meet minimum requirements for latest iMovie update

Like me, you have to follow the procedure described by egdevils.Worked perfect for me.

I have your fix without having to use another mac.

- Open AppStore

- Goto Updates Tab

- On the top right where it says "Update All" click the drop down arrow

- Select update in an hour

It will update iMovie in an hour. I had to go back to my iMac and enter my password but after I did that it updated iMovie! I am running on a

20 inch mid 2007 iMac

2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

3 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro 256 MB

@Madag,

no, this is not working for me :-(

Hello all,

I was having this issue but I think I tricked my Mac into a workaround...

Wait for the Notification in Mavericks to show up saying that one update needs to be completed. Click the Install Now option inside the notification.

For whatever reason, it starts downloading... It downloaded and then I was able to even use it.

Could have been a patch applied by Apple between the most recent post made here and my response, but figured I'd get this out there just incase it helps anyone else!

I was having the same problem with my mid-2007 iMac and triedegdevils suggestion. I got a variation on that result: when I came back in an hour to check and enter my Apple ID info, there was a message that the scheduled update could not be completed. I clicked the "details" button and got the same message as earlier about my video card. Then I closed out of the app store and reopened it, clicked on "updates" (it still showed 1 update) and the download was already under way. It finished and installed fine.

Not a very precise process and my explanation of the sequence might not be exact either, but keep trying and it eventually will install.

I can't figure out any logic why it would reject the update unless you let it install automatically in an hour, but that's definitely part of the trick.

Dear Apple,

If you're not going to support my video card, then please get iMovie out of my software update notifications and telling me to update it.

Love,

Me

Just to let you guys know, whithout having to do anything about that, iMovie downloaded and installed itself with no problem. To me, it looks like magic... but maybe Apple fixed something.

Conclusion: Everything is ok now!

No, it's not OK !!!!

The new iTunes is severely broken on these older Macs with the unsupported video cards. If you "upgrade" you'll end up with problems.

If you did upgrade, you'll still find the old iMovie in an "iMovie 9.09" folder in your Applications folder. Just use that, and pretend that the new iMovie doesn't exist.

If you try to use the new iMovie, it will copy your projects - this may use up a lot of your disk space. It will run very slowly. Then, at some point, you'll start to get visual glitches - parts of the image on your screen may get garbled, and it's not limited to iMovie. It makes your whole system unstable, and other apps will become unusable. You need to reboot to fix it, and if you want to recover the disk space you'll need to find the copied projects and delete them (they are in a "package file" named "iMovie Library.imovielibrary" that's most likely in your Movies folder - just delete that file).

Apple has to fix a bug in Software Update so you can't bypass the compatibilty check (and as other people noted, make it so we don't see updates that we can't use).

But to be clear - this is a bug in software update / App Store. Nothing has been "fixed" in iPhoto to make it run on your old computer, and it never will.

Apart from getting your iMovie mixed up with iTunes/iPhoto you're right. It doesn't run smoothly on the older macs with unsupported video card at all. I used the 'update later' work around, managed to get it, and it appeared to be okay for a while but soon I was getting glitch after glitch, bug after bug, and the whole thing generally not running smoothly at all, freezing, jumping etc etc. The most annoying thing is randomly your edit play back window will just be filled with green when playing back certain clips from the edit timeline. I'm almost certain it's all to do with the unsupported video card issue. The software demanding more from your computer and video card then it can physically handle, which I assumed might happen. I have however managed to find workarounds for all the glitches and problems i've ran into so far, as annoying as they are and succesfully edited a few short videos to test it out. The positives are that it's definately an improvement over the old iMovie in terms of functionality and interface, but the bad news is obviously us people with older macs are never going to be able to use it to it's full potential and as intended, unless they do actually release an update to make it backwards compatible.

Installing iMovie (2013) previously required a computer with an OpenCL-capable video card. This requirement was removed, and iMovie version 10.0.1 can be installed on any Mac running OS X Mavericks. You can learn how to update at the link below.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6023