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Be careful about line endings
Authored by: hayne on Jul 08, '02 10:27:38AM
As I mentioned in an earlier hint, iMovie's project files seem to use the traditional Mac end-of-line character "\r" rather than the usual UNIX end-of-line character "\n" which is what most OS X applications use. So you should be careful to use an editor which can write files in this "Macintosh format" - e.g. BBEdit can do this. Using a standard UNIX editor (e.g. 'vi') will possibly create problems due to the "\n" line endings - I'm not sure if iMovie will accept project files with "\n" line endings (or with a mixture of "\r" & "\n" !).

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Be careful about line endings
Authored by: yoc on Jul 09, '02 08:26:42AM

You're right. The only text editing software I tried which works for editing iMovie projet file was BBEdit. TexEdit and others will give you back an unusable project file.



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