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Q: iMovie 11 vs 9.0.9 crashes after upgrade to El Capitan

iMovie crashes after upgrading to El Capitan. I select New Project and accept the defaults (Widescreen + 30 fps)

On the first screen all I try and do is add a title screen. I drag  a title screen across to my project window and the application crashes. I tried rebooting and doing it again with nothing else open and I get the same problem.

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.1), 8GB RAM

Posted on Nov 16, 2015 7:43 PM

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Q: iMovie 11 vs 9.0.9 crashes after upgrade to El Capitan

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  • by norm123,Helpful

    norm123 norm123 Nov 26, 2015 7:36 PM in response to bigandlittlebear
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    Nov 26, 2015 7:36 PM in response to bigandlittlebear

    Hey bigandlittlebear,

    If both versions of iMovie are crashing on you, you might want to try them out in a different user on your computer. 

    If you already have another user, log out of your account and sign in with the new account to create a new movie project to see if it crashes. If you don't have another account to test with, take a look at the article below for the steps on creating a new account and then repeat the steps to test iMovie. Doing this will help understand if it is something related to your user or just iMovie having an issue. 

    Mac OS X: How to troubleshoot a software issue
    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201516


    Let me know what you find out. 

    Take it easy

  • by bigandlittlebear,

    bigandlittlebear bigandlittlebear Nov 26, 2015 7:40 PM in response to norm123
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    Nov 26, 2015 7:40 PM in response to norm123

    Thanks, I reverted back to Yosemite, so I cannot see if this would fix that problem but after I did go back, the next update for safari cause make loading issue and web content crashes that did not happen if I used a different browser. I used your suggestion of creating another user and the problem went away. It was very helpful. I will try it for the OS X upgrade later if I get the same original problem, when I next attempt to upgrade to El Captain. Thanks.