As many here may be aware, iMovie HD 06 had an issue / bug with Yosemite.
Yosemite incorrectly identified iMovie HD 06 as not compatible, even though it was. A workaround exists to make iMovie HD 06 work with Yosemite. Curious if anyone has tried iMovie HD 06 with El Capitan to see if this issue has been corrected.
Same problem exists with El Capitan, and same workaround works.
I installed El Capitan yesterday and was dismayed to find that iMovie HD wouldn't work (my previous OSX was Lion 10.7.5).
But then I found this discussion link and followed Mike Heasley's (or was it Joe Gramm's?) Oct. 24, 2015 suggestion to modify the Info.plist. His instructions (in this discussion stream) are very simple and don't involve mucking around with Terminal mode. It involves a very simple text-edit, changing the old version number (6.0.4) to something higher. I found four instances of 6.0.4 in the Info.plist. Changing just one didn't work, so I changed all four to 6.0.5 and it worked!! At least it seems to work ok. Haven't encountered any issues yet. Don't have to run Terminal.
Like someone else in this forum said, I have never got my head around the newer version of iMovie. I much prefer the old HD version ....it works the way I think. Also simpler, more intuitive. Yes, the new version has some neat features but I've already pulled too much hair out of my head trying to figure out how to achieve what I want, even simple things. iMovie HD should indeed be kept running in all future versions of OSX. Like the original Mac by-line, it's computing "for the rest of us".
Thank-you Joe or Mike!
Can you copy or export desired photos (jpeg format) from Photos into a regular folder, then import these into iMovie HD?
You shouldn't let iMovie HD 6 be the reason for you not to upgrade your OS. Simply put iMovie HD and OS X 10.8.5 on a separate partition on your hard drive or on a separate external hard drive.
We have a bunch of Mac Minis dedicated to the sole purpose of editing movies here. Naturally, we are using iMovie HD 6 (and iDVD) because we believe it to be the best. We are running OS X 10.9.5 on these Macs. I believe that OS X 10.9.5 is the last OS version to run iMovie HD 6 with no issues or glitches.
I do appreciate the efforts made by others to run iMovie HD 6 on later versions of the Mac OS. It's really a crying shame that Apple abandoned this wonderful program.
If it were up to me, iMovie HD 6 would have been updated and improved with full support for burning Blu-rays. For several years now, Apple has been hostile to optical media. However, optical media is now making a massive comeback with the advent of M-DISC, because of its 1000 year lifetime.
Governments and industry alike are now utilizing optical media, (M-DISC) because it is considered the most stable and longest lasting data storage that exists today.
You can download the full cracked iMovie HD 6.5.1 app see here Tutorial Video. Works all the way up to OSX 10.11 https://youtu.be/-Di9iPpJEVg
Hi Joe,
Can you tell me how to put iMovie HD on my external drive and how would I use it from there? This is what's keeping me from upgrading to a new ios. I'm stuck with 10.6.8 and I think it may be time to move up, but there are certain features on HD that I can't live without. I use the new iMovie just fine and hardly ever go back to HD, but sometimes there is something I really need from there.
I like to edit songs for myself and if they are copyright locked, then I can use iMovie HD to extract them from iphoto slideshows and viola! Stick them into garage band and make them shorter or longer or bleep a word so I can use them in slideshows for school events.
If you know a better way to do that, then I could move on without HD ... but as it is, I do use it for that feature and would like to have occasional access to it.
Terrific !!!!!!
Yes, it is going !!
I've just seen your advice to use two partitions which, for an iMovie HD6 user like me, is a fantastic idea. Is this easy to do? Would you please tell me how to go about it.
Thanks,
Makey.
You are a life saver, I use I movie hd and is better than any of the new ones. I am running Sierra 10.12 and this work around is great. Thank Yoy.
Running iMovie HD 06 with El Capitan
