iMovie 10.0.9 crashes on opening

What is the point of these forums? Apple never seems to read them or care. I also didn't care if Apple was narcissistic when their products actually worked. 10.0.8 crashed on Share, like many others have reported. Now 10.0.9 crashes on open. 😠

Try this: hold down alt/option then click on iMovie. When it opens it will ask you to select your movie library. Select the one you want. Tell me if that works.

I too am having the same version of iMovie crash but not on startup. After placing 2 or 3 clips the app crashes. I tried creating a new user and running it there so that it had a pure System to use. That worked better and I managed to add more clips to the Project. Again it crashed several times. Finally I completed the movie but it now crashes on trying to share it.

Just holding for Apple Support to discuss further.

One thing I realized is that iMovie is finicky with importing certain files. For example, when I imported the AVCHD file, it imported some of the clips corrupted. For the AVCHD package, I opened the contents in finder then I imported the MTS files directly. Then I was able to edit and export the video.

It is such a pain though, so many bugs with the software.

I have been in touch with Apple Second line support here in the UK and they have sent me a Capture Data app to run while I try to create the movie. So I will now try to do just that.

Capture Data failed with an Applescript error. iMovie project was eventually completed but now crashing after selecting Share with Error

Crashed Thread: 23 BGTask: FFBackgroundDeinterlaceProcessorTask Dispatch queue: NSOperationQueue 0x60000603e700 :: NSOperation 0x60000132bd60 (QOS: LEGACY)

Waiting for Second line support on Monday

All the videos in my Project are m4v or MOV - The project is now complete after many crashes but now has failed on Sharing. I am really fed up. Do you think Final Cut would work better for me. Reluctant to shell out 250 quid and then find that fails as well.

This is the Sharing crash - any idea what it means?

Crashed Thread: 23 BGTask: FFBackgroundDeinterlaceProcessorTask Dispatch queue: NSOperationQueue 0x60000603e700 :: NSOperation 0x60000132bd60 (QOS: LEGACY)

Peter

I don't know. Apple software has been horrible lately. The older Final Cut Pro was so much better than the current as far as reliability.

If I were you, I would sign up for Adobe Creative Cloud and use Adobe Premiere. It's a monthly fee and I am pretty sure you can cancel at any time. I had previous adobe software so I only pay about $20/mth USD.

Thanks for your reply. I read somewhere that Perian and Flip4Mac were causing problems with iMovie so I have zapped those and am now sharing my movie as a fairly lo-res so that it should not take too much time. So fingers crossed.

When you share as file and it crashes, it should still output an MP4. Open that MP4 with Quicktime and note the length of the clip. Then look in iMovie at that time sequence and see if there is corrupt or blank spot. That is what I did and I was able to render the entire movie minus 10-20 seconds.

Aha! This helped a bit. I found and ran the MP4 and it stopped at the point the App crashed, so I went back and trimmed the clip, now having a go at Sharing it again. Time for bib's now so I will leave the Mac running. Note my earlier note that I trashed Perian and Flip4Mac and also the iMovie.plist

I suppose we should change the title of this thread. Note that I converted the MTS files to M4v and I wonder if my conversion utility was corrupt? I have asked for the originals to be placed in my DropBox as I had cleared them out after conversion. Last nights share attempt crashed again but at an earlier place. I am going to try a new movie with different content from this stuff and see what happens. I'll do this tomorrow.