Imovie 11 crashes with OS El Capitan

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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

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Answer 1

swrobel

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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?

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Answer 2

iJoe.hu

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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.

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realityisa Author

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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).

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realityisa Author

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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:

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realityisa Author

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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

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realityisa Author

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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.

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realityisa Author

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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. 😕

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realityisa Author

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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. 😐

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Answer 9

realityisa Author

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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.

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realityisa Author

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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 😢

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Answer 11

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

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realityisa Author

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

My video timeline thumbnails also look upside down 😮

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realityisa Author

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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. 😕

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realityisa Author

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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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realityisa Author

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Nov 10, 2015 8:12 AM in response to realityisa

More support in regards to the problem being my Intel HD 3000 Graphics card being the problem with El Capitan, although they got to technical for me to be able to follow: http://www.tonymacx86.com/el-capitan-laptop-support/173380-graphics-glitch-probl em-intel-hd-3000-7-series-el-capitan.html

I get those glitches too!!!

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