iMovie 10 Can NOT Import Files from Older iMovie Projects

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iMovie 10 Can NOT Import Files from Older iMovie Projects

I have older iMovie projects on an external drive and want import/upgrade them to iMovie 10.

After choosing the old projects, iMovie 10 examines the old projects for a while and then gave me a list of files that it cannot import. The files I remember on the very long list are .plist and iMovie project files.

Should I be concerned? In other words, is iMovie 10 now using a new file format that makes these files superfluous? Will iMovie going to incorporate their information in the new architecture, or will some functionality be missing from the imported projects?

I'm running iMovie 10.0.2 on OSX 10.9.2 on a 27" iMac.

Thank you for your time and attention.

iMac (27-inch Mid 2010), OS X Mavericks (10.9.1), 12 GB RAM

Posted on Mar 9, 2014 9:15 AM

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Answer 1

judysings

Community Specialist

Mar 11, 2014 7:58 AM in response to Nello Lucchesi

Hi Nello Lucchesi,

Welcome to the Support Communities!

The article below explains how to update your older projects and events into the latest version of iMovie:

iMovie (2013): Updating projects and events from previous versions of iMovie

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

Cheers,

- Judy

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Answer 2

Mar 11, 2014 2:28 PM in response to judysings

Thank you for your reply.

However, I don't see where these links address my question. I don't see anything about eror messages about certain file types.

- nello

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Answer 3

judysings

Community Specialist

Mar 12, 2014 1:20 PM in response to Nello Lucchesi

Hi Nello,

Thank you for using the Apple Support Community. Due to the nature of your issue or question you may find more information by using another one of Apple's support resources - https://getsupport.apple.com/GetproductgroupList.action

- Judy

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Answer 4

Mar 13, 2014 7:47 PM in response to Nello Lucchesi

What version of iMovie created these old projects? iMovie 10 will only upgrade projects from versions later than iMovie 6HD.

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Answer 5

Mar 16, 2014 7:46 AM in response to Jim Wanamaker

Thanks. I may have had some older projects in the group that I updated. I'll check it out.

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Answer 6

Mar 18, 2014 7:09 AM in response to Jim Wanamaker

I'm going through my old iMovie projects and importing them one-at-a-time into iMove '11 (ver 9.0.9, build 1795)

I don't know the version of the projects that I'm importing but they have this directory structure and have file creation dates in 2007:

Unfortunately, when I import them, I lose most of the editiing that from the old project:

In case you can't read the area in red, it says:

Notes about the imported project:

All transitions wll be replaced by Cross Dissolves.

Titles and music tracks will not be imported.

Video effects will not be imported.

Isn't there a way to import older iMovie projects in their entirety and completely intact?

Thank you for your time and attention.

- nello

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Answer 7

GeeD

Level 6

9,173 points

Mar 18, 2014 9:56 AM in response to Nello Lucchesi

You can always import the finished movies into iMovie 10 and put them into new iMovie 10 project to edit them.

Geoff.

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