After importing Pics in iMovie just black picture

I have a funny "effect" in iMovie. I have tried to import pictures from iPhoto and it works fine as far as I do not apply the Kern Burns effect. If the later is applied, I can see the preview but as far as the effect is completely calculated (red bar bellow the pic is ready) I get just a black picture. The pic seems to have disappeared. However I can still see it if I go to "preview". The black picture has the correct duration but nothing as black is shown...
any idea? Its a bug ...or a feature ? (;-)
Alex

I have tried to
import pictures from iPhoto and it works fine as far
as I do not apply the Kern Burns effect. If the later
is applied, I can see the preview but as far as the
effect is completely calculated (red bar bellow the
pic is ready) I get just a black picture. The pic
seems to have disappeared. However I can still see it
if I go to "preview".
Alex, is the iMovie project stored on an external drive? If it is, iMovie may be having trouble saving the rendered Ken Burns clip to the drive. It starts rendering it, hits a disk error, and gives up.
iMovie requires that the disk have the Mac OS Extended disk format, which most drives do NOT have when formatted for a PC.
Here's more about checking/setting the disk format:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=2920540#2920540
The iMovie trash bug that Sue mentioned wasn't a problem until iMovie 6.0.3, so if you're running iMovie 5 — the forum you've posted to — I'd look for something else. First the drive format. Then check out the comments about third-party iMovie plug-ins and QuickTime add-ons also discussed in the linked-to topic.
Karl

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