[nuschk]

Hi all

I'm new to iMovie and was happily editing my first video project with it, until today. The project is medium sized (11g). Symptoms are as follows: iMovie OPENS the project, but DOESNT display it. The menu bar is there, but other than that, nothing's visible of iMovie. I can even bring the movie window to front, if I change the focus to another application (e.g., finder) and then switch back to iMovie. But, I can not edit anything, no button is reacting to any of my mouseclicks. Also, when trying to export the movie or quitting iMovie, I get a crash. I can even create a new project with which everything seems to work as expected...

Now, I'm completely clueless as how to debug this, does anyone have any idea? I guess that I somehow trashed my project file, is there a way to repair it? Should I really just start from scratch?

Any help is _greatly_ apreciated, thanks!

Bernhard

[Cold Warrior]

If you look in the path where your project is saved, you should see the clips nested there. If not, just right-click the iMovie project itself and choose 'open package contents'.

This will at least let you get to and backup your video clips for another shot, in the event we can't help you get the current project working.

How much free HD space do you have?

[nuschk]

Thanks, I was even able to fix the project by deleting some of these (.dv) files. I found this out by creating a new project and then, gradually, copying all of the old project's files to the new one until the error came again.

The .dv files in question were transition scenes. I still don't know how it came to this, though. It might be that the HDD space went a bit low (around 3 gigs) and that might have caused the problem in the first place...

Anyway, I'm glad the project works again and will, for the future, keep a better backup.

Thanks,
Bernhard