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My stupid iMovie application on my Mac keeps randomly deleting my video clips?!?!?
I'm trying to edit this long video for one of my class's final and every 10 minutes, video clips that I'm not even working on (but about to be working on) that WERE loaded and working, go black and iMovie won't tell me what's wrong. There's no picture or sound. It's really frustrating because this needs to be finished by Friday and I don't want to keep having to go through this. What are some fixes?
I've already tried closing out of the iMovie and it worked the first time--all of the clips loaded back up. But then 10 minutes later, the clips that I had already edited and put in the right order just the way I like it go black. Somebody please help me with this? Does this happen to you? This is only the second time using iMovie on the Mac and it's so frustrating and stupid.
Quitting iMovie and going back in isn't working anymore. Is there something I can do in the application?
1 Answer
- LLv 76 years ago
Odd symptom. I've used iMovie for years and never had happen to me what you are reporting... I now use Final Cut Pro X, but I don't think you need to go there, at the moment.
We don't know which version OSX or version iMovie you are using - and we don't know what the RAM and available hard drive space are (this is all under the Apple - select "About this Mac" - well the iMovie version is not, but we won't worry about that here).
Reboot the mac an start up as normal. When at a stable desktop, assuming there have not been any modifications to applications locations, in the Dock, select "Applications" and open the "Utilities" folder. In there, launch "Disk Utility". In the Disk Utility app on the left side, click once on the internal hard drive to select it. On the lower right, click Repair or Repair disk permissions. You'll probably want to do this a couple of time. When the activity is done, it should come back and tell you the drive is fine.
There are file attributes which allow certain Read and Write permissions. For lots of different reasons, they can be changed and maybe not be so appropriate. This "fixes" them. It is a function of the underlying *nix system that the OSX GUI runs on. If this has never been done, there will be a lot of messages indicated the "repairs" have been done. Doing it a couple of times ensures all are "caught" and fixed. There is nothing you can do to prevent the changes from happening. When really odd stuff starts to happen (like what you are reporting), then the first step is to fix the permissions... then restart the Mac, launch iMovie - let us know if the problem continues.
If the problem continues, please be ready with the OSX version, iMovie version (in iMovie, under File, select About iMovie) and available hard drive space (click once on the hard drive and under File, select Get Info) and post here again... we will also want to know the source of the video - which camera or camcorder, how the video was brought into iMovie... maybe a few more items.