Applying effect turns clip black

I've got 26 students working on their first projects, and this has popped up twice now.
Start with a clip on the timeline. Select it. Go to video effects. Choose an effect. Watch the preview. Click "apply." Wait for the render to complete. POOF! What once was a video clip is now silent black!
I tried restarting, deleting preferences, and permission repair. I even tried moving the project to an adjacent computer (a time-consuming process via gigabit ethernet). No luck.
No shortage of drive space... all the machines have an excess of 100 GB free.
In one case, the offending effect was "Earthquake." In the other case, the effect was "Fast / Slow / Reverse"
All the machines in question are Intel based iMacs. One is last year's white plastic 20" model, the others are brand-new aluminum 20". All upgraded to 2 GB RAM. All running OS 10.5.4 and iMovie 6.0.4
How do I make it work?
Thanks!!

Hi
*Not knowing the origin to Your problem - General approach when in trouble is as follows:*
• Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk if it is less than 10Gb should rather have 25Gb
• Hard disk is untidy: Repair Permissions, Repair Hard disk (Apple Disc Util tool)
• Delete iMovie pref file - or rather start a new user/account - log into this and re-try
• Third party plug-ins that doesn't work OK (not relevant for iMovie’08)
• Program miss-match: iMovie 5.0.2, up to Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK
• Program miss-match: iMovie 6.0.3 or 6.0.4, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• Program miss-match: iMovie’08 v. 7.0.1, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• Screen must be set to Million-colors
iMovie pref file resides:
Mac Hard Disk (start-up HD)/Users/"Your account"/Library/Preferences and is named: com.apple.iMovie.plist
While iMovie is NOT RUNNING - move this file out to desk-top.
Now restart iMovie.
From LKN 1935: (in this case = iMovie HD (5), I tried it all, but nothing worked.
Your answer (above) has been helpfull insofar as all the different trials led to the conclusion that
there was something wrong with my iMovie software. I therefore threw everything away and reinstalled
iMovie from the HD. After that the exportation of DV videos (there has not been any problem with HDV videos)
to my Sony camcorders worked properly as it did before.
Yours Bengt W

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