safely quit iMovie (what is iMovie doing!?)

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safely quit iMovie (what is iMovie doing!?)

Last weekend I imported quite a lot of old videos, probably about 8-10 hours in total. This went well, all events are available in iMovie (10.0.1). However, when I try to quit iMovie now I get the question "Are you sure you want to quit? Tasks that are currently in progress will not be completed.". I have no idea which task this could be, the 'Activity' button is not available and I can't find any more details about what iMovie is doing. Looking at 'top' output I see that iMovie isn't doing much (3-5% CPU usage at most).

Is there any way to figure out what the tasks in progress are and what would happen if I would quit iMovie? Is there a chance I would lose data?

Posted on Jan 7, 2014 12:23 PM

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GeeD

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Jan 7, 2014 3:07 PM in response to Teun-Vink

iMovie 10 will be re-rendering your clips in the background. You can quit safely - iMovie will first report that it is cancelling background tasks. With that much video there will be hours of background activity before it is complete.

Geoff.

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