I recently added a new event and transferred a short video o my mac 10.7.5 IMovie froze when It tried to optimize the video. Now every time I try to open up IMovie, it automatically creates thumbnail, then tries to optimize the same movie but always freezes up. I erased the movie from my hard drive but am still experiencing the same problem. Any suggestions?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.5)
Open Console in Applications>Utilities & see if there are any clues or repeating messages when this happens in iMovie.
Thank you for your response BDAqua. This is the recurring message I receive:
2/16/15 8:40:25.891 AM [0x0-0x9b09b].com.apple.iMovieApp: *** error: can't allocate region
2/16/15 8:40:25.891 AM [0x0-0x9b09b].com.apple.iMovieApp: *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
2/16/15 8:40:25.911 AM [0x0-0x9b09b].com.apple.iMovieApp: iMovie(3377,0xaca412c0) malloc: *** mmap(size=675287040) failed (error code=12)
2/16/15 8:40:25.911 AM [0x0-0x9b09b].com.apple.iMovieApp: *** error: can't allocate region
2/16/15 8:40:25.911 AM [0x0-0x9b09b].com.apple.iMovieApp: *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
2/16/15 8:40:25.930 AM [0x0-0x9b09b].com.apple.iMovieApp: iMovie(3377,0xaca412c0) malloc: *** mmap(size=675287040) failed (error code=12)
2/16/15 8:40:25.930 AM [0x0-0x9b09b].com.apple.iMovieApp: *** error: can't allocate region
2/16/15 8:40:25.930 AM [0x0-0x9b09b].com.apple.iMovieApp: *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
Seems it's trying to allocate memory of 675,287,040 Bytes but cannot, how much RAM do you have, & how much Free? Also how much Free Disk space?
I hope this information is useful
WDC WD1001FALS-403AA0:
Capacity: 1 TB (1,000,204,886,016 bytes)
Model: WDC WD1001FALS-403AA0
Revision: 06.01D02
Serial Number: WD-WMATR0031089
Native Command Queuing: Yes
Queue Depth: 32
Removable Media: No
Detachable Drive: No
BSD Name: disk0
Rotational Rate: 7200
Medium Type: Rotational
Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified
Volumes:
disk0s1:
Capacity: 209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)
BSD Name: disk0s1
Content: EFI
Macintosh HD:
Capacity: 999.35 GB (999,345,127,424 bytes)
Available: 137.86 GB (137,861,890,048 bytes)
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk0s2
Mount Point: /
Content: Apple_HFS
Recovery HD:
Capacity: 650 MB (650,002,432 bytes)
BSD Name: disk0s3
Content: Apple_Boot
Now we need Free Memory/RAM...
Open Activity Monitor in Applications>Utilities, In the Memory tab of Activity Monitor, are there also a lot of Pageouts?
Where would I find the Pageouts?
Okay, here it is.
Mostly guesswork here, since I do not know the inner workings of iMovie, but it appears it needs 675 MB of real RAM to do what it's trying, but you only have 350 MB free.
There must be a way to stop it, maybe try moving this file to the desktop for now when iMovie isn't running...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iMovie.plist
Other than that, more RAM might be the solution...
At the Apple Icon at top left>About this Mac, then click on More Info, then click on Hardware> and report this upto but not including the Serial#...
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac7,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 6 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: IM71.007A.B03
SMC Version (system): 1.21f4
Thanks so much. I've been out of town, but will do when I return.
Thank you so much for your assistance. I was able to delete the file that was giving me the issue as well as a plethora of very old .Mov files that were taking up so much space. The program is once again working smoothly.
Good work,great to hear, thanks for the report! 🙂
Imovie freezes when optimizing a video
