Project pane greys out after adding either HD movie footage or a photo'

Project pane greys out after adding either HD movie footage or a photo' into iMovie '08. Since using a HD camcorder, quite often, after adding either HD movie footage or a photo', the project pane greys out. I have to exit the project and re-enter to continue viewing the project; this is tiresome. Any thoughts or is this yet another iMovie '08 bug?

blackcomb greens wrote:
PS ~ what is the plist?
every app as a preference list, which can get corrupted.
quit iM
look in user/Library/Preferences for a file called com.apple.iMovie(x).plist (x stands for any number) ....
trash that.
restart iMovie..
it doesn't hurt your projects nor does it touch any files.. it just 'resets' an app.. => slapp on backhead.. as I like to call it..
yes, hardware is nice, as long as you don't dare to handle AVCHD .. that is on Intel Mac only..
all Folders (Project/Events) is on local harddrive?
no plug-ins installed (DivX etc)?

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