Treasured's Movie Repair Guide -- iMovie

iMovie is an application that comes with Mac OS X.

It is often used to record personal videos.

On Mac computers with built-in iSight camera, it takes by default video and audio from it. Otherwise, it takes video and audio from any capable device attached to the computer, for example a DV camera connected through Firewire.

 

iMovie movie files always have the same encoding settings, this is one of the Brands detected by Treasured.


Settings for iMovie HD version 6, version 7, version 8


How to repair a corrupt iMovie recording?


When a iMovie recording is interrupted before completion (for a number of reasons, like battery failure or lack of disk space), the resulting file is unplayable. In most cases, you can recover the movie following a few easy steps: