All moving objects, maps, or moving graphics appear black. Some help?

Suddenly all of my projects damaged, every graphic that is within the project itself became black, trailer graphics are black, the plane on the maps are black. Some hellp here. I already reinstalled iMove and a have installed updates but nothing works. Can it be that my graphics card is damaged someways?
I have a MacBook Pro mid 2009 with 8 gb of RAM and a intel core 2 duo 2.53 ghz. Hope that hellps.
Thank You.

etineo3859 wrote:
… No i havent installed any Quartz- plugin or patches. Its like it was working yesterday and today nothing. …
… but a computer doesn't go on strike
hmmm … very hard to tell from remote:
• it could be some hardware failure (Ram, GPU)
• it could be some flaw in iMovie (do you know how to erase the pref-file of an app?)
• it could mean, a re-install of iMovie could help
• it could be some 'general' flaw in your system, 'cause Quartz is a 'core function', used for or in other apps too ....
etineo3859 wrote:
… And it was not working since Lion, now im using Mountain Lion.
so, you used Snow Leopard/10.6x = working
Lion/10.7x = not working
Mountain Lion//10.8 = not working?
... I dare to say, a from-ground re-install could probably give your System a new start .....

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