iMovie stuck on first frame and won’t play the rest.

Hi,

The freezing with an iMovie photo project is a known bug that has been reported numerous times here. It seems to be related to iOS 18.3..

In any case, a successful workaround used by others it is to place a video of any size anywhere in the timeline. That seems to unlock the freeze.

-- Rich

Same thing happening here. My collegue told me about this bug, so I asked him to send me his project. The audio plays, and I see the preview when I move the playhead. But when I hit play it stays stuck on the last viewed frame. It is fine when I export the project as a file. I tried a new project, tried to reinstall iMovie, same issue happens.

Same here, tried updating the app, also tried two different ipads but still won't move past the first photo?!

I just stuck a video I had at the end and that let me edit my other slides. Then I deleted the video before I exported it and it works fine.

But I don’t want a video in there! I want the photos of my class book. I am making a slideshow for my class of a book they wrote to play at graduation. I don’t want a video in there. Any other suggestions? I have to be able yo edit the slideshow and add them narrating.

Hi,

Putting in the video is to help with the editing. Once you finish your editing, delete the video and export the project. It should play fine.

-- Rich

Oh ok! Thanks! I’ll give it a try!

All you need to do is cover the camera and record 1 second of black video and add it to the end of your slideshow before you exporting.

Will the bug be fixed at any point? Have you heard any updates on this? I am a teacher and all my student iPads are now not working because of the update.