iMovie

mikey5oh

OK..Here's one:



I've got an iMovie project that crashed. When I went to reopen it, it said that my project was 'unreadable' or that it 'could not open my C file' and that it would load my clips on to the shelf.



It loaded the clips on the shelf which took all the clips (in edited form) and placed them back on the shelf causing me to start over.



The question is: Is there any way to salvage this mysterious "c file" and "learn" my computer how to read this project again?



Mikey5OH <img src="confused.gif" border="0">

ibrowse

Wish I could help, but iMovie is wierd like that. Did you look through all the project files and all that?

cyko95

Do a lot of people out there have problems running iMovie? Also, is iMovie better off running in OS 9.2? The reason that I ask is because mine crashed twice already tonight. I haven't been to the point where is has told me that something is unrecoverable yet, but the crashes are getting pretty freaking annoying. Especially on a system less than 2 weeks old. Any ideas or input?

sledgehammer

My friend was working on an iMovie project and is having what I believe is the same problem. I don't know what the story is, but any helpful ideas would be appreciated.

jrego

My sister was working on an iMovie project and experienced a crash when I tried to get to the help screens (oops). I believe she had to reconstruct her movie (luckily, it wasn't too complicated). On the other hand, on another machine I've had iMovie running for several days without a crash. Seems to just be a couple of things that iMovie doesn't like. Stay away from those and it works fine.



Unfortunately, one of those things was a sound file I had. It used to work fine, and I pulled the project back after a few months to burn a DVD, and the sound was thrown off by this one sound file. It made this terrible static/skipping sound for the entire rest of the movie (or until I repositioned the insertion point). Didn't do it with a different file in it's place, did do it when I replaced the file with a previous copy (think I even tried re-exporting it). I pulled it off the camera (we were making VHSs before), so it wasn't that big a deal, but that certainly did not seem like a good thing to me.

cyko95

After I read jrego's post I remembered that I was opening the iMovie Help menu as well when mine crashed. I went back in and tried it again. This recreates the issue everytime so far. I'm gonna go check Apple's website for a fix, i'll post it here if I find anything. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />

jrego

To make matters a little more "interesting" for us, I've noticed that some machines deal with the help screen just fine, while others crash every time. Are you sure you're using the latest version of iMovie? Also, perhaps an informal poll would help:

Crashes LCD iMac (not sure of version)

Doesn't crash beige G3 minitower (2.1.1)

Doesn't crash iMac DV+ (2.1.1)



I strongly suspect the version number over the machine type, but my sister's asleep now, and her machine is in her room, so I can't check to be sure.



By the way, cyko95, that animation is very cool.



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cyko95

Just a note for everyone else out there that was wondering...iMovie does run MUCH more stable in OS 9. It's not worlds faster, but some. But definatley more stable. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />

cyko95

Well I haven't yet had the chance to test this completely, but a few tests that i've ran show that this fixed the problem. Remove the Quicktime 6 install and go back to QT5. To do this go to <a href="http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61621"; target="_blank">http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61621</a>; and see if that helps. It did not fix the Help crash though. Well, not for me anyway.