Correct the date on certain iMovie '08 imported movies

Sep 24, '07 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: barskey

iMovie '08 organizes your media into events, and conveniently categorizes the events by the event year. For imported digital media, iMovie can get this information right from the camera itself. But if you are importing footage from VHS tapes or other methods that do not store the event date, iMovie will use the file Creation Date for categorization. If you import an old home movie from 1982, this will seem oddly out of place next to your 2007 videos.

Changing the files' creation date in the Finder to the event's actual date will allow iMovie to correctly group the movie. Once imported, the movie files are stored in ~/Movies » iMovie Events. I used the nice AppleScript droplet from this hint to change the files' creation date.

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