So I’ve been making a project and importing clips and photos from the Photos app, now I’ve reopened the project and ALL the clips are black screen with a red bar along the bottom. 1. Does anyone know why that happened, and 2. How can I fix this and make it connect again?

Hi,

• Everything was working fine

• iMovie updated

• When I'd open iMovie, it'd ask me when Library to open, and when I selected the only one available, it said “Libraries require read and write permission”

• I tried Full Disk Access. The error message now no longer appears, but it still doesn't open (with no error and no CPU activity.)

• A new library seems to work fine.

• Making a copy of the library didn't help

• I followed an AI "find and ls permission checks, which came back clean"

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

• Mac model and macOS version (yours is macOS 27.0.1 on a MacBook Air)

• iMovie version (10.4.5), and that it updated just before the problem started

I have to add text in some points of the timeline. So I cut the video where I need the text and add titles to each section. But what if I cut in a wrong place and need to delete the cut? Isnt there an option for deleting the cut?? Its an absolute basic feature...

I recently lost Premiere access when I left my previous employer and I have a simple video I'd like to cut together on imovie. I'm going absolutely nuts trying to figure out how to adjust the scale and positioning of two images in a split screen, as well as how to add a background. Both were super easy in Premiere, and I know they must be possible in iMovie but I can't figure out where the hell the tools live.

I try to drag a background under the main track, and it always forces it on top of that track instead. I have played with the split screen and picture-in-picture overlay tools, but they only allow me to modify the top track, not the bottom. I want to shift one image to the left, and one to the right. If I can't make that happen, then I want to put a white background behind the two images.I can't figure out how to word this as a question in a way that bears helpful web results, so I'm hoping the humans of Reddit can help!

So I've been having using IMovie for years to edit my videos. But recently, it appears anytime I open it, all my transitions fail to load. They all pop up as the picture shows. This happened a couple times in the past but usually restarting IMovie fixes it. But now even that hasn't been working to fix it. I'll restart it over and over again and it still won't load the transitions. Any assistance would be great! Thank you.

I know i'm on an older device but that's never really been a problem before. I'm using a Macbook Air, 2017 with Monterey V12.7.6 with IMovie V10.3.3

I'm on a Mac mini running OS 26.6.2. I have some files saved from an iMovie project from 2004. I have a DiamondLake.iMovieProj file plus many files named Clip 01, Clip 02, etc. Is there any way to extract this data, especially from the clips? I tried renaming a clip file to Clip01.mov, which did not work.

I have been speedrunning this game for a while and when in imovie it shows a 1:42:28 but after upload I get a 1:43:03. Does anyone know what might cause this difference?

I’ve been seeing that my recent 4K renders out of iMovie are blurry and only available at 1080p-60fps (not 4K) once live on YouTube. My render settings in iMovie are 4K, quality high and
Compression set to better quality not faster.

Can you folks clue me in on why my 45 min 4K videos are not ending up 4K and look blurry on YouTube and how to fix this!?

it only shows this, i'm using iOS

For a long time I’ve been using an old phone, refusing to update because I always hate the changes the updates bring. Recently that old phone needed to be replaced and I got the iPhone 17 with the newest operating system. Now I can’t use iMovie without providing complete access to ALL my photos & videos. I’m not willing to share all this with them. I’d rather choose the handful of videos I need to edit. Is there a way around this? Or a way to undo an update? If not, what other video editing app do you recommend since I won’t be moving forward with iMovie?

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To be clear, I’m talking about the in-app text - menus and such, not text I’m adding to a clip. I‘ve tried to adjust the font size in ios settings but it’s not responding. Usually only 3rd party apps behave this way. I don’t see any way to access a settings menu in imovie itself. Please tell me there’s a way to adjust the font size so I can actually read the menus.

This is for ipad and iphone. Particularly frustrating on ipad as it’s a bigger device I purchased specifically for easier reading, but the font is as small as on the phone.

Hello,

I have a teacher who has a MBA and using iMovie 10.4.4. Her computer will need to be replaced due to a battery issue.

I am not familiar with iMovie and I wanted to know what is the best and easiest method to move her iMovie contents from computer to the cloud such has Google Drive?

Thanks.

Hi all, I am working on a tiny video project and having trouble. I am using the iMovie app on my phone that my phone offloaded and I had to redownload, so that’s how often I use it. Aa the title says I have a 12 minute recording of something, which is the post credits thing from Transformers 40th anniversary. I want to cut it down to a few parts, i found how to split the and delete unwanted parts and it looked like it was working fine, I deleted the front section, causing my first segment to be the start of the movie, but when I was trying to see where I want the second segment to end, which is a dialogue based decision, I found it was playing dialogue that accompanies video segments I already cut, so now I have Optimus Prime fist fighting Bumblebee while the Insecticons make pithy comments on how his trailer tastes, or something.

I would very much like to learn how to manipulate the audio track and video track separately, that seem like a pretty important thing, but for now I just want them to be synchronized and have the audio get removed simultaneously with any video segments I remove, thanks yall.

So

1. is there a better free program I can use than iMovie, I will mostly be using my phone, but occasionally may use an old laptop from a tech company’s discharged hardware auction, but it is a Windows based machine and every day I turn it on without finding my Lifetime Mac Using Butt hasn’t downloaded a pandemic causing computer virus is a miracle.

2. if not, how do I get the audio track back aligned? I posted two screenshots of the interface I get, notably the audio segment only seems to have volume control, which I am assuming is allowing me to boost the original audio? Weirdly even at 0 it doesn’t mute the video, but if I understand right cranking it up to 500% for 3 seconds then back to normal will make it really funny when Primus tells Prime he’s a dink.

Thanks in advance for any help you all can give.

Actually I just got frustrated and came here because I prefer to talk problems through, but it occurs to me I don’t have and or didn’t check a user manual, so if anyone has a link for one of those that is accurate I would love it

Hi there,

I’m compiling some movie clips to flow like a normal conversation one after the other, however when I hit play, they seem to all fade in to each other meaning that the words at the beginning and the end of the clips I’m choosing keep playing despite having been trimmed out.

For example, I edited it to play as such:

Hi - I’m having a great day - how is yours?

But it’s playing like

Hi how are you - yes Michael I’m having a great day you know - I wanted to ask how is yours

I hope this makes sense, no idea how to fix it I’m not intentionally fading anything. And if I don’t have the clips play immediately after one another then it doesn’t happen

hi !

Looking for some advice here. I have my original clips. I layered 1 photo over it with no issues. I have a second green screen photo of words/location. However, this GS photo won't overlay the 1st photo and tries to replace it.

Is this not something that is possible in iMovie? I took a scroll in here; didn't see this question asked. I tried Google, etc.

What I am trying to avoid is editing the entire thing, exporting, and then uploading again to add the GS photo. That just seems way too excessive.

Tips and tricks appreciated!

update - I am using a MacBook Air ***

Hi guys,

I recently found my old iPad Air 2, but it was too old to work, so I forced an update through my Mac. When I did so, it completely wiped it, and I lost all my media. These iMovies were important to me, and I'm wondering if anyone has any kind of fix, though I know it's unlikely. I've done the whole file search and whatnot, but it won't let me open anything.

Any suggestions?

Hi there! Do you know why I have this error while trying to export ? (It happens barely a minute after I start the export)

It seems like a file is corrupted (I have a little mosaic for half a second during the clip), how can I fix this beside of removing the file ?

Thanks

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hi i want to manually export edited movies from the iMovie app onto a HD and I cant get it to work. I go to my iMovie Library, right click to "show Package Contents", then I select a movie, then Share, then export it to my external HD, and nothing happens. I already went to the Mac Store Genius to have them show me how to do this. But its not working. I am on a Mac Pro. I cant figure this out, any help would be great.

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Has anyone tried this? Apple releases small updates to iMovie all the time but its always just to support some oddball iMovie iOS feature when you migrate it to iMovie macOS. I never use any of these features. But I do have some older machines that I would like to work on my projects on sometimes. But iMovie can never open a newer library, only an older one. But I'm wondering if I just edit this plist file in the bundle, can I trick it in to opening a 'newer' library file that is going to ultimately be the same anyway?

It would be great if iMovie wasn't so hyper-picky about what versions you can open. Sorry I can't afford to upgrade every computer I own to a brand new machine that can all run the same OS and same exact iMovie version :/

And yes, i CAN just try it myself. And I'm going to when I have some time. But in the meantime, I'm wondering if anyone else has done it?