iMovie09 and iDVD

[bob3250]

Can someone please help. I seem to have hit a brick wall.
Both iMovie09 and iDVD have started hanging (the dreaded spinning ball), iDVd when I open it and iMovie when I try to look at pictures to import from iPhoto. Only Force Quit will close either program.
I moved both programs to the Trash and reinstalled them to no effect.
I reinstalled Leopard, also with no effect.
In each case I also then made sure I searched for the latest updates.
Anyone have any idea what the problem and possible solution might be?
Many thanks,
Bob

 

[tgratton]

Is it because you have already imported too many pictures and video into imovie?

 

[tgratton]

I remember imovie taking a great deal of time to load when I would work on a particular project (home videos). I since found out that it was best to trim down each project seperately before importing into one big project. This seemed to work for me.

 

[bob3250]

Hi guys,
I sorted the problem. When you import pics from a digital camera, it also imports any movie clips that may be on your camera and puts them in iPhoto. This wasn't a problem with previous versions of iMovie & iDVD but with the latest version the whole thing falls over if anything other than pics are in the iPhoto file. I moved the clips from the folder & everything was fine.

 

[xstep]

iMovie 08 also imported movie clips from your camera. I haven't seen this issue with either iM08 or iM09.

I also don't understand how this would affect iDVD. I don't expect the two applications to be related when it comes to the iPhoto library.

I hope what ever you did sticks.