You can make a difference in the Apple Support Community!
When you sign up with your Apple Account, you can provide valuable feedback to other community members by upvoting helpful replies and User Tips.
When you sign up with your Apple Account, you can provide valuable feedback to other community members by upvoting helpful replies and User Tips.
I made an iMovie in 2007 for my parent's 50th wedding anniversary. It's almost 15 years and three macs later, and I want to update the movie for my parent's upcoming 65th anniversary. On a current iMovie app I clicked on "Update Projects and Events." It said there were no project and events. I can't even find a way of watching the movie now because it says "The file isn't compatible with QuickTime." Help! Thanks.
iMovie 10 will only update projects and events from iMovie versions beginning with iMovie 7. It cannot update projects and events from iMovie 6 and earlier. I suspect that you might have iMovie 6 since your movie was made in year 2007.
If you have an older Mac that still runs iMovie 6, you can open the project there and either add your updated edits in iMovie 6 and export, or export the project as a standalone movie in its present form and import that into iMovie 10 as one long clip. Editing in iMovie 10 will be somewhat limited, but you will be able to split clips, delete clips, trim, add titles and add effects like picture in picture.
If you don't have the iMovie 6 app, you can control click on the project's icon, and click on Show Package Contents/Media and access the project's media there. You then could copy (not move) the media to your desktop and import into an iMovie 10 project for re-editing.
Also, after clicking on Show Package Contents you can click on Shared/iDVD and you should see a .mov file of the project that you can play with QuickTimePlayer 7. You can then do a screen recording of the movie as it plays, that will give you a movie that you can import into iMovie 10 for editing.
-- Rich
iMovie 10 will only update projects and events from iMovie versions beginning with iMovie 7. It cannot update projects and events from iMovie 6 and earlier. I suspect that you might have iMovie 6 since your movie was made in year 2007.
If you have an older Mac that still runs iMovie 6, you can open the project there and either add your updated edits in iMovie 6 and export, or export the project as a standalone movie in its present form and import that into iMovie 10 as one long clip. Editing in iMovie 10 will be somewhat limited, but you will be able to split clips, delete clips, trim, add titles and add effects like picture in picture.
If you don't have the iMovie 6 app, you can control click on the project's icon, and click on Show Package Contents/Media and access the project's media there. You then could copy (not move) the media to your desktop and import into an iMovie 10 project for re-editing.
Also, after clicking on Show Package Contents you can click on Shared/iDVD and you should see a .mov file of the project that you can play with QuickTimePlayer 7. You can then do a screen recording of the movie as it plays, that will give you a movie that you can import into iMovie 10 for editing.
-- Rich
Opening an iMovie made in 2007
