Flip4Mac installed may crash iLife 06

I installed the latest version of iLife ‘06 on my G5 and was very excited to be able to try out some of the new features. One of them was the new iMovie HD 6. When I went to go add some media from iPhoto, the entire application crashed. Not good. I tried to import the .avi and .mov files directly instead. Nope! Same thing!

I could not believe that Apple would ship such a terrible product that it would crash when it tried to import movies from its own product. What good would iMovie be if I could not add my movie and photos from iPhoto?

I started to investigate and see if there could be anything that I installed that could screw up things. Two days before I had done an update for Quicktime 7. I did some research to find out that this was actually patched so that it would work with iLife ‘06. I could not find any other sites complaining about this update directly related to 7.04 update.

I had also installed Flip4Mac from the Microsoft site that would allow me to watch Microsoft standard files within Quicktime. Little did I know that Flip4Mac was the problem. I uninstalled Flip4Mac and guess what? My iLife was working again!!!

Again leave it up to Microsoft to screw up even my Mac!