Mac OS: iMovie and iMovie HD troubleshooting (English/Chinese)

IMovie and iMovie HD troubleshooting

1. Disk Partition format:
   IMovie project must be created/opened/modified onMac OS extendedOrMac OS extended (journaled) Partition. If not, please move the project to a right partition.
2. QuickTime add-ons:
   Incompatible QuickTime add-ons
   May cause iMovie crash, for example DivX, flip4mac, or 3ivx, either
   Update them or delete/move these add-ons to other folder.
   These add-ons may reside on/Library/QuickTimeFolder which will affect all users, or on users'~ /Library/QuickTimeFolder which will affect this user only.
3. Third-party iMovie plug-ins:
   Please update them or delete/move them to other folder.
   They may reside on/Library/iMovieOr users'~ /Library/iMovieFolder.
4. Disk Space:
   It may ask for at least 2 GB or more free spaces to edit a iMovie project. Depends on your project size, it may ask for more.
5. In-compitable software issues:
   The most easy way is create a new user, but it may not a option in some scenario.
6. Permission:
   This may be the issue. Don't know how to fix permission? Ask administrator.
7. Conflict version:
   If you updated it to a newer
   Version before but downgraded back, this might be the issue. The old
   Version will not read the new version plist file correctly. So delete
   The plist file may be the choise.
   All related plist files:
   ~ /Library/preferences/COM. Apple. iMovie *. plist
   ~ /Library/preferences/COM. Apple. Quicktime *. *. plist
8. Font related:
   If you migrated your user profile from a old system, this might be the issue:
   Delete/move~ /Library/fontcollectionsFolder.
   This picture is showing this issue:

IMovie and iMovie HD Problems

 

1. Disk Partition format:
   This software requires that its files should be stored in partitions in Mac OS extended format. If not, move to a partition that meets the requirements, or find a useless partition and format it. Note that the Mac OS extended (journaled) Partition format is also supported.
2. Additional Software for quicktime:
   Attachment software of QuickTime may cause iMovie running problems, such as DivX, flip4mac, or 3ivx. Solution: to upgrade these additional software, if they cannot be found/cannot be upgraded, but they are moved or deleted, they are generally stored in the following directory:/Library/QuickTimeOr the user's~ /Library/QuickTime

3. Third-party iMovie plug-ins:
   You can also upgrade or delete or move these plug-ins./Library/iMovieOr the user's~ /Library/iMovieDirectory.
4. Disk Space:
   IMovie may require at least 2 GB of free disk space based on the size of the file you edited. If the space is insufficient, rendering and other operations may fail.
5. Other user compatibility issues:
   The simplest method is to create a user, but sometimes this method is not practical, for example, in a multi-user network environment.
6. Permission issues:
   This problem is the simplest but sometimes overlooked. You don't know how to deal with this situation. Contact the system administrator or experienced users.
7. Conflict between versions:
   This occurs when you run a newer version of iMovie and then run an earlier version, because the old version does not recognize the settings of the new version of plist file or some settings are invalid, resulting in various running conditions, you need to delete the plist file in the response, the most common ones are:
   ~ /Library/preferences/COM. Apple. iMovie *. plist
   ~ /Library/preferences/COM. Apple. Quicktime *. *. plist

8. Font-related:
   When you use a user migration tool to migrate and upgrade the system, the following folder may be deleted:
   ~ /Library/fontcollections

Tony Liu @ Calgary, 2009