Recommended size of photos

Just started using iM 8 on my 1.8 Dual G5 (Yes, it installed and works although it appears a little slowly)! Question: What is the size that photos need to be to insure they will import and display properly? I dragged a couple of photos from an external file and one showed perfectly and another was black. I resized them to 640x480 and no problems but is there a specific max?

Question: What is the size that photos need to be to insure they will import and display properly?
Not sure if there is a limit on the source photo but photo resources stored in the "Project" package are scaled. However, specific storage does seem to be somewhat contextual. For example, all of my source photos are 3008 x 2000 and my tests have been in the widescreen (16:9) mode. In one of my projects all of the photos were scaled and stored at 1624 x 1080 while in the other they were scaled and stored at 718 x 1080. First photo added to the project may determine how all other photos will be stored. In the case of the first project, the first photo was in a landscape orientation while in the second the first photo was in the portrait orientation. In addition, while all photos for my second project were stored in a "portrait" orientation, they were not stored using a "preserve aspect ratio" algorithm -- i.e., landscape photos were stored "squished" horizontally but were correctly displayed in the project and final output. Would, therefore conclude that the scaling algorithm may be based on the height of the first original photo added to/kept in a project and the aspect ratio of the project itself. Believe it might be interesting if you were to post back with comparison notes regarding the scaling and storage of your photos -- i.e., for both the original and the 640 x 480 cropped photos.
I dragged a couple of photos from an external file and one showed perfectly and another was black.
For the moment would assume the "black" display problem may have been due to the scaling and/or file format. Mine were all JPEG files. What were the dimensions and file compression format for your photos?

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