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iMovie 10 to 9 downgrade procedure

I've done a silly upgrade of my iMovie 9.0.4 to iMovie 10.0 and things didn't work well at all.


I've been asked if I wanted to convert my old event library and projects and I answered yes. Now in iMovie 10.0:

  • most of my 16:9 clips shooted with my old SD camcorder are 4:3
  • my old projects are in 16:9 but it's the 4:3 clips which are cut at the top and bottom to make them 16:9 (so the aspect ratio is wrong AND the image is cut)
  • my old projects are missing titles


Where can I find the procedure to downgrade to iMovie 9.0.4 ?

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 24, 2013 5:09 AM

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Posted on Oct 24, 2013 5:19 AM

You don't need to downgrade. iMovie '11 (version 9) is still available to use and can be found in the Applications folder. You can still open the original Events and Projects in iMovie '11 and edit as before.


When you update Events and Projects a copy is made and placed in a folder named iMovie Library. The original files are untouched.


See these Apple articles:


Updating projects and events from old versions of iMovie -

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6012


Removing old libraries after updating -

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5917


John

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Oct 24, 2013 5:19 AM in response to Malbrouck

You don't need to downgrade. iMovie '11 (version 9) is still available to use and can be found in the Applications folder. You can still open the original Events and Projects in iMovie '11 and edit as before.


When you update Events and Projects a copy is made and placed in a folder named iMovie Library. The original files are untouched.


See these Apple articles:


Updating projects and events from old versions of iMovie -

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6012


Removing old libraries after updating -

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5917


John

Oct 24, 2013 11:55 AM in response to John Cogdell

Is it possible to upgrade projects and events on a case by case basis? When I first opened iMovie 10 it asked if I wanted to convert Events and Projects. I said yes. I have about 2TB of movies on a 3TB drive. At some point iMovie told me things were going pear shaped and I would be better of to quit iMovie, which I did. I'm assuming the process of batch converting everything caused my disk to run out of space. So a more gradual approach might be necessary....

Nov 27, 2013 4:20 AM in response to Alan Cook2

I found working with the new version 10 to be very difficult since events are no longer listed by year and were in the same library as projects. It was difficult finding anything. The library included every photo and music sound track that was ever inserted in my projects. Very strange. Also the new version seems to be very slow in making edits and additons. I give up.


I put version 9 back into applications and will be using it for now. I am thankful that I did not delete my version 9 projects and events files.

Feb 9, 2014 6:34 PM in response to Malbrouck

THANK YOU!!! I never thought I would still find the old iMovie 9 still in the Applications folder.


iMovie 10 has been a disaster ever since I "upgraded". It bogs down my entire computer using up 100% of 8 CPU cores and doing absolutely nothing, can't even shut it down because it says there are operations in progress even one hour after it is done converting and importing.


Now I have my iMovie 9 back, and works like a charm!


Thanks again!!

iMovie 10 to 9 downgrade procedure

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