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This is really obscure, but really easy.

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  1. Download, install and launch the program on your Mac computer, then click 'New Project' 'Import Media Files Here' to load your target video into the program for editing. Before adding special effects to your video, you can use the editing tools to split, crop, cut, rotate, or edit a video as you like.
  2. Scene to the last. Whether you’re using a Mac or an iOS.

Ilife 09 Download For Mac. Mac computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5, or PowerPC G4 processor. IMovie requires a Mac with an Intel processor, a Power Mac G5 (dual 2.0GHz or faster), or an iMac G5 (1.9GHz or faster). IDVD requires a 733MHz or faster processor. 512MB of RAM; 1GB recommended.

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:

  1. Download iMovie 9.0.9 Update
  2. Double click iMovie9.0.9Update.dmg to mount it
    • open ~/Downloads/iMovie9.0.9Update.dmg
  3. Use Terminal.app to expand (not execute) the pkg archive
    • pkgutil --expand /Volumes/iMovie 9.0.9/iMovie9.0.9Update.pkg ~/Downloads/iMovie/
  4. Rename Payload to Payload.zip
    • mv ~/Downloads/iMovie/iMovie9.0.9Update.pkg/Payload ~/Downloads/iMovie/iMovie9.0.9Update.pkg/Payload.zip
  5. Unpack Payload.zip (to Payload 2)
    • open ~/Downloads/iMovie/iMovie9.0.9Update.pkg/Payload.zip
  6. Move iMovie to the Applications folder
    • mv ~/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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