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I have been digitizing Super 8 film movies on a Wolverine Movie Maker Pro, writing to an SD card. Now that I have a couple of movies digitized I want to import them into iMovie, but I can't get them to show up in the files to import to 'Media'. The Wolverine folks maintain that there is no compatibility problem, but I'd like to hear from anyone who has done this recently. Thank you.
iMac 21.5″, macOS 11.4
If iMovie starts behaving unexpectedly in any way for no apparent reason, the problem could be caused by corrupt preference files.
The cure for this is to delete the preferences.
Hold down the Cmd and Option keys as you launch iMovie and this window will appear.
Click “Delete Preferences” and iMovie will open in the default (as-new) mode with sometimes no projects etc. on the interface.
If your project doesn’t load automatically you will have to navigate to it and reopen it. Your project libraries by default are stored in your Movies folder unless you have specified somewhere different.
If iMovie starts behaving unexpectedly in any way for no apparent reason, the problem could be caused by corrupt preference files.
The cure for this is to delete the preferences.
Hold down the Cmd and Option keys as you launch iMovie and this window will appear.
Click “Delete Preferences” and iMovie will open in the default (as-new) mode with sometimes no projects etc. on the interface.
If your project doesn’t load automatically you will have to navigate to it and reopen it. Your project libraries by default are stored in your Movies folder unless you have specified somewhere different.
I haven’t done it recently, but once you have the clips on an SD card you can plug the card into your Mac and drag the clips onto your desk top into a Finder folder. From there you can drag them into iMovie.
— Rich
Update on my question - I am using an iMac running version Big Sur version 11.4. My iMovie is version 10.2.5. I plug in my SD card with the Wolverine digitized files and can't see them in iMovie. I just also tested this on a second iMac which is running High Sierra version 10.13.6, and with iMovie version 10.1.12. I can see the clips on this iMac with older software and import them into iMovie! Why can't I do this on my own iMac which I was encouraged to update? Thanks.
Thanks for the suggestion. I can only import the files I can see in iMovie when I press the import media button. I can still see the Roxio video clips from my previous projects. I can see the SD card that has the new Wolverine clips, but there are no files visible. In response to Rick839 I tried moving the clips to my desktop with Finder, they still can't be seen, also I tried reading and outputting using Quicktime, again, the clips are invisible to iMovie import media. For deleting the preferences, do you mean the render files? The other preferences are just choices. Or is there another way to start again? One thing I should mention is that these are super 8 movies, but since digitized using Wolverine, they don't have audio. I am hoping to record the audio separately and merge in iMovie, when I get it working OK.
I did what Ian Brown suggested about deleting the preferences. I did it twice, since I didn't see anything different after I deleted them, then I restarted the Mac. Unfortunately nothing changed, the files are just not showing up when I try to import Media. My solution now is just to bite the bullet and use the older Mac which does not have this problem. I still would like to know what is going on, but in the interest of using iMovie, this seems to be for the best.
This reply is being repeated because somehow I don't see my post here in the forum, apologies if you are seeing this twice.
Since you ran into this problem have you tried importing "normal" clips into iMovie?
It's possible that iMovie has developed a fault. If so, try deleting the preferences.
Digitized Super 8 movie files.
