Mac Pro iDVD/iMovie crashes

[Kurt W.]

After two years of happily editing video on my G4 Powerbook, I dug deep and sprung for a 3 GHz Mac Pro for a larger project. It's been a nightmare. iMovie freezes when moving clips, forcing a quit -- and inexplicably dumps long-edited clips in the trash, forcing me to choose between unscrambling and reconstructing or losing work since the last (maniacal) save. iDVD snags on audio coding and won't burn at all. The resident genius was helpful but had no solutions. Others apps are slightly buggy (Aperture import was half-baked, iTunes crashed) and I wonder if I screwed this up by using the "migration assistant" in moving files over. Thoughts? Suggestions? Many thanks.

 

[MRU]

Yeah a lot of people had a problem with the migrate assistant back when the intel macs first emerged, it appears sometimes ppc files are moved over and replace intel/universal ones.

The best bet at this stage would be to do a clean install of your operating system in all honesty.

Then manually bring programs/files across, maybe by just copying them to an external HD or using your other mac in target mode..

 

[orangezorki]

Yep, sounds like the migration assistant. I've had a couple of apps quit on me on my MP, but nothing as bad as that. Reinstall, and give Apple an update or two, and reliability will be back up to as close to 100% as possible.

David

 

[Kurt W.]

Thanks!

Guys -- thanks so much. I'll give it a shot and post back. Really appreciate the help.

 

[videoten]

kurt w., please do post whether the reinstall solves this problem. as a potential mac pro buyer for video editing, i am more than curious to see if you continue to have problems.

i'll keep my fingers crossed for you...and thanks in advance for posting.

 

[Chone]

kurt w., please do post whether the reinstall solves this problem. as a potential mac pro buyer for video editing, i am more than curious to see if you continue to have problems.

i'll keep my fingers crossed for you...and thanks in advance for posting.

For whats its worth my Mac Pro has been rock solid in iMovie, even when doing several other stuff in the background.

 

[Kurt W.]

Will do, Videoten -- it's my weekend project

 

[Kurt W.]

Repaired permissions instead

OK, well, I decided to try repairing permissions rather than reinstalling OSX. Seems to be working fine, and it was sure easier than reinstalling all of that other software! Lesson One: Never use Migration Assistant. Thanks, all.