If you use iMovie at all to create videos or home movies, you will either like or don’t care for iMovie 10.0.5 that comes with Mavericks 10.9.x. If you have iLife11, you would have iMovie 9.0 and the latest update is 9.0.9. To me iMovie 9.0 is fine, but I just want to update from 9.0 to 9.0.9 just in case and the software won’t let me to update from 9.0 to 9.0.9 after 10.0.5 already installed. In order to update, I have to trick the system so I can have all the version installed.
1. Move iMovie 10.0.5 (purple icon) in the Applications folder to trash (don’t empty trash).
2. Copy iMovie 9.0 from iMovie 9.0 folder to Application folder and rename it to iMovie.
Read Online Imovie 09 Guide iMovie Version Guide: Free Download iMovie 9/10/11 or Any Version. IMovie is a video editing software application sold by Apple Inc. For the Mac and iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch). Put the Event in the Movies/iMovie Events/ folder. With these in place, there is a chance that iMovie 10 will see them. However, I am not sure if you have to convert to iMovie 11 (which is version 9) first. Both iMovie 9 and iMovie 11 use the RCProject format. The current iMovie is called iMovie (no year) and is Version 10.
3. Run the iMovie 9.0.9 update package – now it should be installing the update.
4. Move the iMovie (9.0.9) to iMovie 9.0 folder: Now you have both version 9.0 and 9.0.9
5. Open trash and put back the iMovie 10.0.5 – Now you have all 3 versions: 9.0, 9.0.9, 10.0.5.
This is really obscure, but really easy.
It turns out that the full iMovie 9 app is included with the freely available iMovie 9.0.9 'update'...it just takes a little know-how and elbow grease to liberate it.
Here's what you do:
- Download iMovie 9.0.9 Update
- Double click
iMovie9.0.9Update.dmg
to mount itopen ~/Downloads/iMovie9.0.9Update.dmg
- Use Terminal.app to expand (not execute) the
pkg
archivepkgutil --expand /Volumes/iMovie 9.0.9/iMovie9.0.9Update.pkg ~/Downloads/iMovie/
- Rename
Payload
toPayload.zip
mv ~/Downloads/iMovie/iMovie9.0.9Update.pkg/Payload ~/Downloads/iMovie/iMovie9.0.9Update.pkg/Payload.zip
- Unpack
Payload.zip
(toPayload 2
)open ~/Downloads/iMovie/iMovie9.0.9Update.pkg/Payload.zip
- Move
iMovie
to theApplications
foldermv ~/Downloads/iMovie/iMovie9.0.9Update.pkg/Payload 2/Applications/iMovie.app /Applications/iMovie 9.0.9.app
Tada!
Enjoy!
You have to do some of these steps from the command line, so you might as well do all of them from the command line to make it faster and less error prone:
Make sure you unplug any cameras or phones from your computer before opening iMovie for the first time,otherwise it'll take a while to catalog everything before you can begin to use it.
This should work, in 2020, on all of the MacOS releases:
- 10.12 Sierra
- 10.13 High Sierra
- 10.14 Mojave
- 10.15 Catalina
If you have an older version of OS X, you may just need to download an older version of iMovie 9:
As long as the file size is about 1 GB, it probably contains the full version,meaning that a slight modification of the process outlined above will likely work.
If you try to get iMovie 10 from the App Store and you don't have the absolute latest version of macOSyou might get a warning like this:
Would could not complete your purchase
iMovie can't be installed on 'Macintosh HD' becausemacOS version 10.14.6 or later is required.
HOWEVER, if you first install iMovie 9 with the method shown above,when you next visit the App Store you will find that you now have the 'Upgrade' option.
Neat!
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