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Q: Imovie 11 crashes with OS El Capitan

MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2011), Processor 2,4 GHz Intel Core i5, Memory  4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3, Graphics Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB, OS X El Capitan 10.11.1.

 

Imovie 11 crashes at random when trying to add a transition, text, importing a movie, etc..

 

It is enough frustration that the beachball is now ever present everywhere and that I can't even open Google Chrome since I've upgraded to El Capitan 10.11.1, now I cannot edit video which is what I mainly use the Mac for.

 

I can't uninstall Imovie since I have many unfinished projects that I can't lose.

 

Please advise.

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)

Posted on Nov 9, 2015 8:31 AM

by Rich Rydalch,Solvedanswer
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A:

realityisa, there is a definite problem with iMovie 11 (version 9) and El Capitan. I have yet to find anyone that has been able to run this combination. One of the problems is that when you import photos they go black. So if you plan to run El Capitan you will need to upgrade to iMovie (version 10).

I have been running versions 8 & 9 for several years and love the interface. But the new version 10 is much like Final Cut Pro (which I also have). I don't like version 10 but it seems to run just fine with El Capitan (at least on my iMac. You realize it has been out since Oct. of 2013 so I think most of the bugs are worked out.

Normally when you upgraded to El Capitan that version should have been installed on your computer. If not you should be able to just download from the App Store. I just did that on my MacBook Pro while I was typing this reply and it seems to work fine.

Posted on Nov 27, 2015 2:59 PM

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  • by swrobel,

    swrobel swrobel Nov 9, 2015 11:53 AM in response to realityisa
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    Nov 9, 2015 11:53 AM in response to realityisa

    There is no iMovie 11. Are you referring to 10.1?

  • by iJoe.hu,

    iJoe.hu iJoe.hu Nov 9, 2015 2:27 PM in response to realityisa
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    Nov 9, 2015 2:27 PM in response to realityisa

    Does the problem persist if you create a new iMovie Library and open just that one? You can create a new library (and leaving your previous library intact) by holding down the Alt key when launching iMovie, and chose New… from the dialogue.
    iMovie 10.1 has issues with OS X El Capitan, but those crashes suppose some media incompatibility or corruption. You should try a project in a new, empty library, and check whether it is a library problem or a system bug.
    (Uninstall obviously won't solve the issue. The iMovie.app itself could not be source of the problem.)

     

    p.s.: You can open your old library after testing from File > Open Library… Feel free to test.

  • by realityisa,

    realityisa realityisa Nov 9, 2015 6:18 PM in response to swrobel
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    Nov 9, 2015 6:18 PM in response to swrobel

    When I open Imovie and go to Imovie>About Imovie it says: Imovie '11 version 9.0.4 (1635).


    I guess it's version 9 then?

     

    When I upgraded to El Capitan my Mac asked me to upgrade Imovie so I did (I thought I would avoid issues this way).

  • by realityisa,

    realityisa realityisa Nov 9, 2015 6:55 PM in response to iJoe.hu
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    Nov 9, 2015 6:55 PM in response to iJoe.hu

    When I open Imovie holding down the Alt key it does not prompt a dialogue where I can choose "new". It just opens normally.

     

    I googled how to create a new Imovie library and read I should go to file>open library but I don't have that option under file. This is what I have:

     

    Screen Shot 2015-11-10 at 03.38.32.png

  • by realityisa,

    realityisa realityisa Nov 9, 2015 7:29 PM in response to realityisa
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    Nov 9, 2015 7:29 PM in response to realityisa

    So I just deleted my whole Imovies Projects folder as I read on the internet this would fix it.

     

    I restarted Imovie and opened a new project, imported the movie and was going to try to add text/title and just by scrolling down the title browser before I could even choose one it crashed:

     

    Process:           iMovie [549]
    Path:              /Applications/iMovie.app/Contents/MacOS/iMovie
    Identifier:        com.apple.iMovieApp
    Version:           9.0.4 (1635)
    Build Info:        iMovieApp-16350000~2
    App Item ID:       408981434
    App External ID:   3919357
    Code Type:         X86 (Native)
    Parent Process:    ??? [1]
    Responsible:       iMovie [549]
    User ID:           501

     

    Date/Time:         2015-11-10 04:25:15.958 +0100
    OS Version:        Mac OS X 10.11.1 (15B42)
    Report Version:    11
    Anonymous UUID:    3C79B364-571A-ADA0-4497-114674E89DF0

     

     

    Time Awake Since Boot: 2200 seconds

     

    System Integrity Protection: enabled

     

    Crashed Thread:    0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

     

    Exception Type:    EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
    Exception Codes:   KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000004
    Exception Note:    EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

     

    VM Regions Near 0x4:

    -->

    __TEXT             0000000000001000-0000000000442000 [ 4356K] r-x/rwx SM=COW  /Applications/iMovie.app/Contents/MacOS/iMovie

     

    Application Specific Information:

    building project tree

    VRAM info:disp 0:256MB

    ...built

  • by realityisa,

    realityisa realityisa Nov 9, 2015 7:44 PM in response to realityisa
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    Nov 9, 2015 7:44 PM in response to realityisa

    The issue seems to have something to do with the Titles browser, I can't scroll down on it or it crashes and If I select any of the first ones without scrolling and I drag and drop it on the project it crashes.

     

    I've deleted my projects folder and started from scratch and I have deleted the Far Far Away title that was causing trouble in other versions as per another thread and the problem still persists.

     

    Please help.

  • by realityisa,

    realityisa realityisa Nov 9, 2015 8:02 PM in response to realityisa
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    Nov 9, 2015 8:02 PM in response to realityisa

    Now I tried this:

     

    Delete iMovie pref. file

     

    iMovie pref. file resides.

    Mac Hard Disk (start-up HD)/Users/"Your account"/Library/Preferences

    and is named. (one or more of these)

    com.apple.iMovie.plist

    com.apple.iMovie3.plist

    com.apple.iMovie7.plist

    com.apple.iMovie8.plist

    com.apple.iMovie9.plist

    com.apple.iMovieApp.plist

     

    and find

    com.apple.iApps.plist

     

    While iMovie is NOT RUNNING - move this/these file/s out on to desk-top.

    Now restart iMovie.

     

    If You run Mac OS X.7 or more - then the Library in the User-account folder is invisibly and need to be set to be viewable. IT IS NOT in the Library on Root level (when opening MacintoshHD - first window = root level)

     

    ( It can be done like this: Open Terminal, then enter: chflags nohidden ~/Library

    Press return, then restart, and it will always be visible until the next major update, when you do the same thing again. )



    -------------------------


    Still crashing when trying to add a title.

  • by realityisa,

    realityisa realityisa Nov 9, 2015 8:39 PM in response to realityisa
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    Nov 9, 2015 8:39 PM in response to realityisa

    Created a new account on system preferences, tried adding a title on Imovie on the new account, still crashed. Ran disk utility first aid, still crashing. Don't know what else I can do here.

  • by realityisa,

    realityisa realityisa Nov 9, 2015 9:10 PM in response to realityisa
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    Nov 9, 2015 9:10 PM in response to realityisa

    Deleted the Imovie cache files, stil crashing when trying to add titles.

  • by realityisa,

    realityisa realityisa Nov 9, 2015 9:24 PM in response to realityisa
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    Nov 9, 2015 9:24 PM in response to realityisa

    Downloaded imovie9.0.9update.dmg and when I try to install it I get: The following disk images couldnt be opened input/output error

  • by Semantics,

    Semantics Semantics Nov 10, 2015 12:34 AM in response to realityisa
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    Nov 10, 2015 12:34 AM in response to realityisa

    I also have this issue, imovie 11 9.0.9 crashes when trying to insert text to clips. Started after El Capitan.

     

    I'll start a different thread but thumbnails in both imovie and aperture are upside down...

     

    Process:              iMovie [699]

    Path:                  /Applications/iMovie.app/Contents/MacOS/iMovie

    Identifier:            com.apple.iMovieApp

    Version:              9.0.9 (1795)

    Build Info:            iMovieApp-1795000000000000~1

    Code Type:            X86 (Native)

    Parent Process:        ??? [1]

    Responsible:          iMovie [699]

    User ID:              501

     

     

    Date/Time:            2015-11-10 00:22:22.697 -0800

    OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.11.1 (15B42)

    Report Version:        11

    Anonymous UUID:        F2AE56E4-E4CB-7B6E-F3FA-697C5270605B

     

     

     

     

    Time Awake Since Boot: 6000 seconds

     

     

    System Integrity Protection: enabled

     

     

    Crashed Thread:        0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

     

     

    Exception Type:        EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)

    Exception Codes:      KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000004

    Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

     

     

    VM Regions Near 0x4:

    -->

        __TEXT                000000000005e000-00000000004e6000 [ 4640K] r-x/rwx SM=COW  /Applications/iMovie.app/Contents/MacOS/iMovie

     

    There is a lot more to the error message

     

    External Modification Summary:

      Calls made by other processes targeting this process:

        task_for_pid: 2

        thread_create: 0

        thread_set_state: 0

      Calls made by this process:

        task_for_pid: 0

        thread_create: 0

        thread_set_state: 0

      Calls made by all processes on this machine:

        task_for_pid: 3077

        thread_create: 0

        thread_set_state: 0

     

     

    VM Region Summary:

    ReadOnly portion of Libraries: Total=282.1M resident=0K(0%) swapped_out_or_unallocated=282.1M(100%)

    Writable regions: Total=353.4M written=0K(0%) resident=0K(0%) swapped_out=0K(0%) unallocated=353.4M(100%)

     

                                    VIRTUAL  REGION

    REGION TYPE                        SIZE    COUNT (non-coalesced)

    ===========                    =======  =======

    ATS (font support)                32.1M        9

    Accelerate.framework              128K        2

    Activity Tracing                  2048K        2

    CG backing stores                6604K        5

    CG image                          3880K      131

    CG image (reserved)                  4K        2        reserved VM address space (unallocated)

    CG shared images                  272K        9

    CoreAnimation                      108K      15

    CoreData                            4K        2

    CoreImage                          600K      23

    CoreUI image data                  304K      13

    CoreUI image file                  320K        5

    Foundation                          20K        3

    IOKit                            7940K        2

    Image IO                          7948K      85

    JS JIT generated code              32K        3

    Kernel Alloc Once                    4K        2

    MALLOC                          250.4M      208

    MALLOC guard page                  48K        9

    MALLOC_LARGE (reserved)          2252K        4        reserved VM address space (unallocated)

    Memory Tag 242                      12K        2

    Memory Tag 249                    156K        2

    OpenCL                              8K        2

    OpenGL GLSL                        128K        3

    Process Corpse Info              2048K        2

    SQLite page cache                  128K        2

    Stack                            19.7M      26

    Stack Guard                      56.1M      26

    VM_ALLOCATE                      11.1M      165

    WebKit Malloc                    4392K      23

    __DATA                            16.9M      325

    __GLSLBUILTINS                    2588K        2

    __IMAGE                            528K        2

    __IMPORT                            20K        6

    __LINKEDIT                        55.3M      66

    __OBJC                            5392K      123

    __TEXT                          226.8M      325

    __UNICODE                          552K        2

    mapped file                      126.2M      180

    shared memory                    16.4M      11

    ===========                    =======  =======

    TOTAL                            858.4M    1789

    TOTAL, minus reserved VM space  856.1M    1789

  • by realityisa,

    realityisa realityisa Nov 10, 2015 2:22 AM in response to Semantics
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    Nov 10, 2015 2:22 AM in response to Semantics

    My video timeline thumbnails also look upside down

  • by realityisa,

    realityisa realityisa Nov 10, 2015 2:58 AM in response to realityisa
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    Nov 10, 2015 2:58 AM in response to realityisa

    So that discards that the update to 9.0.9 would help. Also I can't download the update on the app store to 10.1 it always says download failed.

     

    But I've read that version has many bugs so I am not sure if I should be relieved.

  • by realityisa,

    realityisa realityisa Nov 10, 2015 8:00 AM in response to Semantics
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    Nov 10, 2015 8:00 AM in response to Semantics

    Hi Semantics, as I was analyzing if I should move to final cut pro (I really need to resume my video editing activities), I researched and found that people are also having problems with FCP crashing when upgrading to El Capitan. Turns out they solved it by re-installing their NVIDIA GeForce Graphics driver, which made me suspect that this could be driver-related. So I did some research and apparently my graphics driver is not optimal/compatible for El Capitan, Source: http://www.everymac.com/mac-answers/os-x-el-capitan-faq/os-x-el-capitan-compatib le-macs-system-requirements.html I have Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB and apparently Intel HD Graphics 4000 or newer are required.

     

    So my question to you is: Can you check which graphics card you have and is it listed on that link as compatible with El Capitan?

     

    Do you think this could be related to the graphics driver and if so, what can we do to solve it? Revert the OS upgrade?

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