iMovie 8 not working with El Capitain

Thank you for 1. They don't work with iMovie 10 either!

2. In iMovie 10 if I go to import either iMovie 8 projects or events they are 'dulled' on the screen and I can not click on them to import. The files are stored on the internal hard disk in my user file in movies (they have been in the same place since they were made with iMovie 8). They just will not be highlighted so I can choose one event or project to upload. As I said I tried re installing 10 but it did not make any difference.

In summary I can't use my old projects in 8 and I can't upload them to 10 (I chose not to do it when I first installed 10 because I wanted to see if I liked 10).

If 8 does not work in El Capitain, it's a good way to get people to buy 10! Problem is for me at least that does not work either!

Thank you.

Thank you again. If one does that, do the files cease to be able to be accessed in 8?

william

Thank you very much for your help. I will see haw I get on and hope that the pictures and the video will work again.

If I may I will let you know what happens.

WIlliam

Sadly it was a disaster!

I. It 'hung' after about half of the projects had uploaded and I had to force quit. I then tried to see what had happened to the files that had 'loaded' - they were all listed but everyone was empty and when clicked on nothing happened! None of the iMovie 8 projects or events had been processed.

2. Is there a limit to the number of projects iMovie 10 can handle. They were all OK in 8!

I tried removing the file where the process stopped converting but that made no difference and any way the process stopped in different places so it could not have been a damaged file.

The convert process clearly does not work for me from 8 to 10 so I just do not know where to go from now?

Sorry to bother you again

William

I tried several things!

1. I booted from a 3TB external disk with at least 1.5TB free. It still did not work so I presume that it is not a problem relating to free space on the disk. It is a problem of iMovie 10 not being able to manage all the files?

2. I did as you suggested. There was a problem doing events and projects together because the projects took bits of events from various files so I had no idea which to try to update together.

3. I managed to upload all of the projects, in three sessions as you suggested. The computer did not 'hang' and all went well but all the projects were put into three files so I could not find any project easily without scanning through all the files to find it! I then tried to do the same for the events. They did not seem to link up correctly so all I seemed to get was a continuous file, with no breaks or titles again. I gave up.

4I tried to just upload one project whose events file I knew, both together, and when I tried to open the project it said that clip number ... was missing try to reload. This I managed but the iMovie 10 could not see it still although the images from iPhoto, which had been absent under iMovie 8 had now reappeared.

So in 8 I cant see the images and in 10 I cant see the clips and I cant load everything together so I think there is no solution to this mess.

WIlliam

Many clips in different projects were missing but the pictures were there!

I have managed to convert, if that is the right word, all the project and events files and the iMovie 10 Library now contains 950 GB and the iMovie theater 4,16GB because most of the uploaded files are not in the theater file. During the upload process there were several error messages saying that not all the files were compatible (with ? El Capitain or iMovie 10?) although I could find them in the iMovie 8 files and in iMovie 8 the clips were there but the images not!

I tried convertingit one file at a time but as I said I did not know all the event files for a particular project and those which had a single file in each section (project/event) ended up with missing clips which I could not get them to recognise although I reloaded the clip.

I just think that the conversion does not work properly either because of 10 or El C.?

I have reinstalled both the Os and iMovie 10 so unless there is a bug in the computer or more likely the applications I just cant get any further. It is a pity Apple does not read all these fora - they might write a fix if they knew.

There was a further problem with iMovie 10, the first time I opened it it hung, I forced quit and then opened it again and it worked. This alternating working and hanging seemed to persist during the entire process which I have been at all day!

In desperation,

William

I'll give that a try.

Thank you,

William

Well I tried! I logged in as a guest after having set up iMovie project and events files in Movies in the shared user file. I then put what were matching events and projects into these files. As a guest I opened iMovie 10 and then tried to update the projects and Events in the 'file' menu.

It was unable to find four files, although they were fine in iMovie 8.

I continued and then looked for the missing files.

THe missing files were dulled and could not be loaded.

iMovie it would appear can not update all iMovie 8 files!

It is impossible to get the projects and files updated it seems?

William