Black 1st screen on movie made in Iphoto

Hello. I have just created my first Quicktime movie in Iphoto. I have imported it into my Iweb website that I am creating, but the first thing you see is a blank screen. How can I have the first image in my movie be what you see before you press play? It is that way with other movies I have made in Imovie. Why not in Iphoto?

Hi,
I had the same problem after importing some Casio video clips into iPhoto. The download of Casio's AVI Importer did play the clips in iPhoto, but the black 1st frame remained in iPhoto's library. I subsequently removed the Casio AVI importer and instead installed the Perian QuickTime component, re-imported the clip into iPhoto and all was well with the qst frame showing actual video footage rather than a black frame.

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