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It is iMovie 11 (v 9.0.4) and there don't appear to be any updates.
Hi Poppi. iMovie 11 was developed to work with iPhoto, so will not link to Photos. My iMovie 11 does not show Photos as being a source of photographs, only Photo Booth.

You can access your Photos library from within iMovie:

In the left-hand sidebar of the iMovie window, select Photos Library.
Click the pop-up menu at the top of the image browser to choose a content category—My Albums, Albums, Years, Collections, Moments, or Places.
When you find the photo you’d like to use, drag it into the Timeline.
That is an instruction for the latest version of iMovie, NOT for iMovie 11. As I'm sure you know, the photos button is on the right hand side of the divider, next to the Music button in iMovie 11.

You could drag you photographs out of Photos onto the Desktop, and then drag them to your Project Timeline. However, there is a bug with iMovie 11 and El Capitan where photographs inserted into iMovie 11 Projects show up as a black screen.

However, the following fix may work. With your photo on the Desktop, Right/Ctrl click on it and select Open With and choose MPEGStreamclip(if you have it. If you don't, you can download it from here: http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html).

With the photo in MPEGStreamclip, go File Menu>Export to MPEG-4. This will give you an mp4 "movie" file which you can then import into iMovie 11 and it should then show in the Project. I don't have El Capitan so I can't confirm that it works, but in theory it should.
 
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To save you all your recent problems and aggravations, do you have a clone or backup of your older SL OS X 10.6.8 where everything seems to have worked well for you, that you could use.

Not much seems to be going well or working properly for you at this point so it's almost like flogging a dead horse to get it to work properly again.

Thank you for that suggestion BUT I had my Mac in at an authorized repair shop to fix a kernel panic problem (which took 3 weeks but they did fix it and it has not recurred). At the same time they offered a free upgrade to El Capitan and, since many of you have been telling me for years that I should upgrade the O/S, I decided to do it. That made my original Mac Office package and my Photoshop Elements incompatible so I had to buy new versions of both those. I am concerned that if I go back to 10.6.8 it MIGHT solve this stupid iMovie problem but the new programs might not work and I will once again face the problems associated with the out of date O/S.

I can't believe a corporation as high tech as Apple releases these upgrades which are so awful

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I can't believe a corporation as high tech as Apple releases these upgrades which are so awful

C'mon poppi, you know very well that you have been procrastinating about upgrading for quite some time. Then you get a free upgrade and now want to blame the forums for advising you to upgrade and then blame Apple for their upgrades.

We'll try to help you best we can but you need to face the fact that falling so far behind in everything is your own doing. You just received some good advice and a suggestion from member "MightyGem". Why don't you try what he offered?
 
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poppi, look in your App Store, and look under the Purchases tab, is iPhoto listed there? Is iPhoto already installed? Did you look at my link in Post #15 to see if any of those iPhoto updates will help to make iPhoto work with iMovie?
 
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C'mon poppi, you know very well that you have been procrastinating about upgrading for quite some time. Then you get a free upgrade and now want to blame the forums for advising you to upgrade and then blame Apple for their upgrades.

We'll try to help you best we can but you need to face the fact that falling so far behind in everything is your own doing. You just received some good advice and a suggestion from member "MightyGem". Why don't you try what he offered?

Hi chscag

I am very sorry if I came across as an ingrate. Quite the contrary, I blame only myself for falling so far behind in the O/S. If that is the reason for all these problems I have only myself to blame. This forum has been an invaluable asset and has helped me solve many problems over the years and I am very grateful to all of you. Re the suggestion from MightyGem I tried that but it did not work (see my reply to his post which I will send after this).

Thanks to you and all the forum members for trying so hard.

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Hi Poppi. iMovie 11 was developed to work with iPhoto, so will not link to Photos. My iMovie 11 does not show Photos as being a source of photographs, only Photo Booth.


That is an instruction for the latest version of iMovie, NOT for iMovie 11. As I'm sure you know, the photos button is on the right hand side of the divider, next to the Music button in iMovie 11.

You could drag you photographs out of Photos onto the Desktop, and then drag them to your Project Timeline. However, there is a bug with iMovie 11 and El Capitan where photographs inserted into iMovie 11 Projects show up as a black screen.

However, the following fix may work. With your photo on the Desktop, Right/Ctrl click on it and select Open With and choose MPEGStreamclip(if you have it. If you don't, you can download it from here: http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html).

With the photo in MPEGStreamclip, go File Menu>Export to MPEG-4. This will give you an mp4 "movie" file which you can then import into iMovie 11 and it should then show in the Project. I don't have El Capitan so I can't confirm that it works, but in theory it should.

Thanks for the clarifications and suggestions. I tried the work around with MPEGStreamclip, downloaded the application, loaded the photo in the screen, clicked make MP4. Started encoding for a few seconds and then message "Error: cannot write the movie file".

Did I do something wrong or is this another fix that doesn't work with El Capitan?

Thanks again

poppi

Update - On second look there IS a MP4 icon on the desktop but when I tried to drag it into iMovie project it did not "stick" just went back to the desktop

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On second look there IS a MP4 icon on the desktop but when I tried to drag it into iMovie project it did not "stick" just went back to the desktop
Try using iMovie's Import function, File Menu>Import>Movies... then navigate to the Desktop and select the mp4.
 
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Try using iMovie's Import function, File Menu>Import>Movies... then navigate to the Desktop and select the mp4.

Hi MightyGem

I was excited to see this suggestion and gave it a try but to no avail. Here are more facts. I tried File> Import>Movies>desktop>add to existing event. The file (DSC00172.mp4) showed on the screen but was greyed out. Clicking it had no effect. More info - when I go to the desktop and double click the icon DSC00172.mp4 the MPEGStreamclip opens with the messge File open error: unrecognized file type. Clicked open anyway and get a message File open error: can't find video or audio tracks,

???
 
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iPhoto is compatible with High Sierra, so it is definitely compatible with El Capitan.

What version of iPhoto do you have?
 
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I was excited to see this suggestion and gave it a try but to no avail. Here are more facts. I tried File> Import>Movies>desktop>add to existing event. The file (DSC00172.mp4) showed on the screen but was greyed out. Clicking it had no effect. More info - when I go to the desktop and double click the icon DSC00172.mp4 the MPEGStreamclip opens with the messge File open error: unrecognized file type. Clicked open anyway and get a message File open error: can't find video or audio tracks,

Hmmm. OK, last suggestion, then I'm out of ideas. For the photo that you want to use, create a one photo Slideshow in iPhoto, and then export it, which will give you a movie file which hopefully you should be able to use.
 
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Hmmm. OK, last suggestion, then I'm out of ideas. For the photo that you want to use, create a one photo Slideshow in iPhoto, and then export it, which will give you a movie file which hopefully you should be able to use.

Thank you MightyGem. This is the first thing that worked (after a fashion). Here is what I need to do to import photos to an iMovie project.

In Photos select photo > file > create slide show name – or * > file > export > export slide show > desktop > export. In iMovie File > import > movies > select > import. In iMovie event Library click on photo > right click > add still frame to project > adjust length. I needed to do this for each photo, only 13 but it took forever. Before my upgrade all I had to do was click the camera icon in iMovie and my iPhotos appeared and I dragged the ones I wanted into the project.

I appreciate all that you and the other forum members have done to try to help but I am furious with Apple for turning a very user friendly program into a nightmare. I am seriously thinking of looking for a replacement for iMovie. Suggestions will be appreciated.

Thanks again

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I am furious with Apple for turning a very user friendly program into a nightmare.
I understand your frustration, Poppi, but iMovie 11(V9) was released in 2010 for OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard and designed to work with iPhoto. It's now 8 years old and was replaced by iMovie10(v10) 5 years ago. Photos was released 2 years later and designed to link with iMovie10.

I don't think that it's unreasonable that Apple has not updated iMovie11 to work with later versions of OS X and Photos.
 
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poppi, if iPhoto is listed in the Mac App Sore, on your Purchased page, then you can download the most up to date version to work with El Capitan, which should work with iMovie. If it is listed there, move iPhoto from the Applications folder to the Trash, close and reopen the App Store and download iPhoto from the Purchased page.
 

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iPhoto is still listed under my purchased items, however, I'm not sure if it's the latest version since I've long since removed it from my Mac. Poppi should be able to download the latest version he was using at the time.
 
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if iPhoto is listed in the Mac App Sore, on your Purchased page
Possibly not. It's not on mine. Could that be because I acquired iPhoto on my first Mac before the App Store existed?
 

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I believe iPhoto is only going to show in Purchased Items if it was purchased through the App Store. If it was then the latest version should be available for downlad.

IIRC there was a glitch at one time that would not let you download the newest version if certain versions were already present. I think the solution was to move the existing version of iPhoto into an folder and then enter the App Store. go to Purchases, and download the most recent version.
 

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Possibly not. It's not on mine. Could that be because I acquired iPhoto on my first Mac before the App Store existed?

I believe iPhoto was part of the iLife package at one time. The iLife package was included with my first Mac which was a 2008 White Plastic MacBook. But I do remember that the iPhoto updates were offered to me over the years until Photos replaced it.
 
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Remember when, they started giving it free with new Macs, then they gave it away for free, https://imacify.com/2013/10/how-to-get-iwork-and-ilife-for-free-on-older-macs/? And when it became available in the App Store, you were offered the App Store version of the iLife suite? iPhoto, needed a specific update, to make it compatible with Yosemite, or El Capitan, I forget which. And many people never updated iPhoto prior to the OS upgrade, and it needed to be deleted, then installed from the (Mac) App Store. But the OP, coming from Snow Leopard, never got the version of iPhoto that was free from the App Store.
 
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Thanks Bob, that was one of the iPhoto etc. install methods I was trying to recall.

And at least apple still has the "iPhoto Library Upgrader 1.1" available at:
https://support.apple.com/downloads/iphoto

And I'd be surprised if what the OP wants or needs isn't still available somewhere on the 'net. The older needed stuff may just not be available at the Apple's site.

A websearch could help the OP find what they need. :Mischievous:




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