Will iMovie HD6 and iDVD still work with the latest OS Sierra?

I suspect that iM6 will work with Sierra, as it does with El Capitan, but that has yet to be determined until users running Sierra weigh in. iDVD is a separate program that works independently of the operating system, and so if a video can be shared out, whatever operating system you use, it can be imported into iDVD.

Hi,

El Capitan is no longer sold by the Apple store, so you will need to buy it from a 3rd party vendor like ebay or Amazon. I just checked Amazon and it is selling El Capitan for $15.

iM6 will run on El Capitan, but you need to do some fiddling. Check out the following thread: Running iMovie HD 06 with El Capitan

Hi,

In the link I gave you the instructions that you would be following are these:

I assume that you are asking about the info.plist file. I can't tell what specifically you want to know. Generally, a .plist file stores the settings for an app. What you would be doing is altering one of the settings for iM6 so that it will open in El Capitan. Once you open the info.plist file as instructed, change the setting as described and save it.

The problem with your thought about partitioning your main drive so you can keep OS 10.8.5 on it is that you will need to completely erase your main drive to do that. As an alternative, you might consider purchasing an external drive, formatting it for Apple, and putting your older operating system on that.

That sounds like it would work, as long as you can boot Snow Leopard on the external drive. Since you've already got the set up, copy your iM6 app over to the external drive and see if it will run on Snow Leopard. If it doesn't, you can try the workaround procedure that we discussed above.

I seem to recollect, however, reading a long time back, that iM6 had to be on your system boot drive. Not sure about that.

You may need to set up your external drive as a boot disk. But, this is territory with which I am not totally familiar because I have not done it. So perhaps others will weigh in here with some comment.

I have not used a 3rd party stabilizer with iM6, but I have heard of iStabilizer and fxStabilizer that you can google for more details.

iMovie 10.1.2 has a stabilizer feature. You might try importing your shaky clip into iM10, stabilizing it there, then sharing it out to your desktop where you can then import it into iM6 as a movie clip.

You are welcome.

Please post back if you find a stabilizer that works well. From what I have read, stabilizers at the delivery level are not very satisfactory.

Hi,

It is possible that iM6 will not operate on Sierra. You are the first who has tried it to post on this forum.

I'm still running El Capitan so can't do a test.

Did you remember to save the .plist after making the change? Also, I am running iM6.0.3, and I changed to 6.0.5. And I have iM6 on my boot drive.

If you can't get it to work, you could try this: Control-click on the iMovie6 icon in your Applications folder, then double click on Contents, then MacOS and then click on the iM6 file that is in the MacOS folder. That should open iM6 plus a little Terminal pop-up box which you will need to keep open (park it on your dock). At least, that procedure works in El Capitan.

Thank you for posting back, because your findings may affect one's decision whether to upgrade to Sierra at this time. Perhaps others who have tried to run iM6 on Sierra will weigh in.

Best,

Rich