Black Preview Window with iPhoto

Hi everyone,
Sorry to post this up again - but am getting desperate...
I posted this problem a few months back but made the mistake of putting it in iMovie 05 section. The problem is actually with the latest version of iMovie (06). Here's the original thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=502494&tstart=0
As I said, I am getting desperate to find a way of getting iMovie to work properly as friends and family are wanting me to do movies of various weddings and parties for them.
Can anyone help?
PowerBook G4   Mac OS X (10.4.6)   US Model

Not sure of exactly what your problem is, but if it is that your photos turn black when put into iMovie, here is what happened to me: I did some checking and found that any photo with a dimension of greater than 2999 pixels would turn black, when moved into the clip frame of iMovie. When I trimmed the photo so that the maximum dimension was less than 2999 pixels, it imported with no problem. I used PS Elements to change the photo size. I thought it was the Ken Burns effect at first, but this seems to work for me.

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