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Is it possible to convert iMovie 11 library back to iMovie 10?

Started 4 months ago | Questions thread
StoneJack Contributing Member • Posts: 986
Re: Is it possible to convert iMovie 11 library back to iMovie 10?
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drusus wrote:

I have an iMovie library created with iMovie 10 on a Mac running Catalina. The library is on a portable external drive. I temporarily connected this drive to another computer, a Mac running Monterey, and I opened the library with iMovie 11. This resulted in the library being converted to a new format, which iMovie 10 cannot open.

I would like to access this library again with the original computer that can only run iMovie 10 (the latest version of iMovie that can run on Catalina, from what I gather). Is this possible? Can an iMovie 11 library be converted back to a format that iMovie 10 can access?

I considered the alternative of updating the original computer to Monterey but it's too old for this.

Once updated, not. However, if you have an archive like Time Machine (on Mac), you may be able to recover an older archived file, not yet updated.

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