[Gepat]

Hello !

I have already made a few movies with iMovie and I was very pleased with it until today. I am working on a quiet important project (wedding) and suddently, after 3 or 4 minutes of editing, I haven't been able to trash about 1 GB of images. iMovie quit and now, when I want to open my project, it says "your project file is not readable" and I get systematically Type 2 or Type 11 error messages. So I cannot open it (all the little images in my project seems to be broken).

So I erased iMovie and re-installed it. Nothing changed. I erased the preferences, no result either. What can I do ? Maybe 128 MB of RAM is not enough ? It is interesting to note that all less important projects (in size) do work perfectly. My project makes already 1,98 GB... My config is G4 cube 500mhz; 128 MB (more than 60 MB for iMovie); 60 GB HD. I also use the transition pack from geethree.com

Any help would be greatly appreciated !!! :-)

Patrick

[Robin1]

I don't know what "Type 2" and "Type 11" errors mean! Can someone tell us? And 128 meg should be enough, the problem must be elsewhere

Rob

[Matthew Attoe]

Hi there,

Don't know if this helps, as it is not a complete answer, but recently on the main Macnn.com page was a little snippet about a work around for projects that iMovie has damaged. i clicked the link, but it didn't take me anywhere Still, it would appear that there is a problem with iMovie and large projects... Don't know what version of iMovie it relates to, but I think it was iMovie 2.

If you happen to find the workaround, perhaps you could post it here.


Matthew

[Demonhood]

that thread is here: http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/Forum9/HTML/001360.html

hope that helps.