iMovie 7.1 wont start, it keeps bouncing up and down on the dock and then it settles.

[kwfl]

that is it

when i click on the imovie 7.1 application on the dock, it just bounces there for a minute and eventually settles without it being started

i havent used imovie before,

this happens to it
on my
iMac 24" 2.8GHz
MBP 2.4GHz, 15"

any clue of what this could be?

 

[NAG]

Can you paste the applicable parts of your console log here?

I would think it would be a permission issue but maybe something else.

 

[gr8tfly]

I had a similar problem. It would just bounce and never launch.

I tracked it down to an old DIVX plug-in (DIVX 5, if I recall). Removed the plug-in, and iMovie fired up just fine.

 

[kwfl]

I had a similar problem. It would just bounce and never launch.

I tracked it down to an old DIVX plug-in (DIVX 5, if I recall). Removed the plug-in, and iMovie fired up just fine.

do u mean a quicktime plugin, cuz i installed the same plugins to the both comptuter and to my friends computer and it is the same issue

i will try it.

EDIT:
just figured it out, it is the DIVX Pro 5.component AND the DIVX 5 condec.

thanks very much for your hlep, really grateful to u.

Wow, look at the difference in performance get out of the iMac compared to the MBP.
i have the same video footage on both, it took 2.5 minutes to make thumbnails in the iMac and 9 minutes in the MBP (the MBP is running Leopard BTW, imac Tiger 10.4.11)

 

[gr8tfly]

Glad that did it. Mine died after the first update to iMovie. I gave up, for awhile, after trashing plists didn't help. Finally decided to get more serious and checked the Open Files and Ports list in Activity Monitor. Starting with 3rd party stuff, older first, made DIVX stand out.