An iMovie crash…

I had about 45 minutes worth of video dumped into iMove when it crashed. I halted the camera and re-launched iMovie. The application saw the camera; but when I hit iMovie’s “Play” button, the camera did not respond. I disconnected the camera and turned it off (to recycle its electronics), quit iMovie, and rebooted the PowerMac. Once it was back at the Panther desktop, I reconnected the Firewire cable to the camera, turned it back on, and re-launched iMovie. It found the camera again.

However, error messages popped up telling me that there were some “stray files” not associated with my current project. Upon examining the files, I knew that they were associated with the project and iMovie had lost track of them. I wanted to just import them back into the project but found that the File/Import function was greyed out. Making sure “Clips” on the iMovie interface was selected, I then tried dragging and dropping the files onto the Clipboard. That worked. I recovered all the clips but one using that technique. It apparently had gotten corrupted, but it was a clip I really didn’t need, so I didn’t bother trying to recapture it.