Imovie 09 Green Screen Lag

I recently built a nice green screen to use with imovie 09. Everything with imovie 09 and green screening has worked so far except... when I select the green screen option, the green screen clip's audio lags. The words don't match up with the mouth.
Any help would be appreciated

I just received my copy of iLife '09 today and installed it this evening.
Like others, I was looking forward to being able to do simple green screen editing in iMovie instead of bogging down my system with FCP...
But so far I don't see how to do it. When I pull up the "Maps and Backgrounds" box I see the blue screen and green screen, but when I apply them to my movies they just get thrown in as transitions - not behind the actual video clip/subject itself.
Any ideas? Am I doing this wrong? Will I have to go back to FCP???
(Oh, and the "faces" featured in iPhoto takes forever to process a large photo library! My 30Gb library says it's going to take 240 minutes to process.)

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IMovie "green screen" feature has serious problems.

I precisely followed the iMovie "help" instructions to make a green screen effect for what should have been a simple iMovie project... a 10-second video tagline for closing titles on a much more extensive project.
According to iMovie help, it should have been easy (and maybe even fun). It wasn't. Five hours of my life melted away forever. The iMovie "green screen" feature has serious problems. Remember that old Mac advertising campaign that said "It just works"? Well, it doesn't. Shame on Apple and the iMovie development team.
See low-resolution QuickTime movies and more details here:
http://www.art101.com/101temp/imovie_madness

Folks,
I ran into the same issue (I named it "transparent green screen", I hadn't a better name).
I spent about a week to solve this problem, since I needed it to build a marriage slideshow.
The tools & Config:
iMovie 09, iPhoto 09, Adobe After Effects CS4
Mac OS X 10.6.2, MacBook Pro 13" 2.26 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM
The Solution for the "transparent green screen":
I created a movie in AE, and put a green background into it. It was the pure green color.
When I imported the movie into iMovie I just got the "transparent green screen", not the real effect.
I some cases, by changing the background images, I could get the green screen to work, but it was kind of random. Which made it harder to solve it.
I thought it could be because of AE, some incompatibility. I went to Youtube and downloaded a green screen video (a woman dancing in a green background). I inserted the video into iMovie, and it worked just fine, all the way.
Then I tried to match the green color I was creating digitally with the Youtube video's green color. It didn't work either. The "transparent" effect was there again.
But when I looked at that Youtube video, I noticed that the green color was not pure. Because that green background was made in the real world, it was not pure, there were some shades of green.
Well, I just replicated that into the digital world. Modified my video's digital green background. From pure green to a gradient green, but very subtle, almost imperceptible. Just to replicate the "imperfection from the real world".
That was it. Solved. Maybe iMovie 09 needs that imperfection to work well. Using "pure greens" might confuses it.
Please do your tests. And let me know your results.
Regards and greetings from Brazil.

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Hi I recently started using the green screen sollution iMoive provides, and it works alright.
BUT! after putting at bg image and a green screen image together something weird happens, if I decide to put extra bg material after the sequence or erase everything and start over in the same project, the green screen option disappears. together with the insert picture in picture aso. why does it do that.? anyone else has that problem?

Hi
And Advanced tools still ON - or did it go to OFF also ?
I would try - Create a new User-Account and log into this and see if iMovie behaves. This forces Your Mac to create ALL pref. files as New - and if all works OK now then this indicates where to find the problem.
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i just relaized i can use the green screen option on my imovie. I went to prefrences and clicked on advance settigns once i did that everything was fine, however when i returned to my imovie and created a new project and clicked on the footage and wanted to select the advance options itdid not come up, but what is werid is that it is still set to advance options and i am still able to tag my pictures with keywords (an advance option feature) but when i right click or even click on the image only the standard setting comes up... i have no idea what i am doing differently please help

For greenscreen, you would first shoot some footage before a green background and import it into iMovie.
Now, drag some background footage into an iMovie project. Then drag the green screen footage into your project and drop it on top of the background footage at the point where you want it to start. (It doesn't have to be exact, you can adjust it later.) At this point a pop up menu will appear, and you can choose green screen.
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I saw this in the store but can't get the camera to capture and apply to a still picture. I know this is the green screen feature, but none of the help topics cover what I saw in the store - looked easy but not getting it.
-J

Maybe you guys have already solved this 'Photoshop to iMovie green screen technique' but if not, here's how I got it to work:
I did have to make a movie file to get the green screen technique to work; a single frame of a graphic over green did not work for me either.
I am using Photoshop CS4 Extended (with animation features).
I filled the Background with Pantone Green 354.
I created a second layer that contained my graphic.
I animated the position of the graphic from left to right and created a 60 frame movie.
I made certain that the last frame of my movie was just plain green without the graphic.
I exported my animation like this:
File-Export-Render Video...
QuickTime Export: QuickTime Movie
Click on Settings...
Click on Settings... again.
Choose Compression Type: Animation
Keyframes: Automatic
Compressor: Millions of Colors+
Quality: Best
I turned off Prepare for Internet Streaming
Click Render button.
I imported the movie into iMovie and used the green screen technique.
I also double clicked the green screen movie and made sure I checked on 'Subtract Last Frame'
Voila! Hope my description made sense.
(As mentioned, another way to composite a still (not animated) graphic over your video is to create your graphic over a transparent background. Save it as a PNG file. This will work with iMovie's Picture In Picture feature. A Targa TGA file did not work for me.)

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Hi
YOU need to - in iMovie - Turn on Advanced Tools !
top row menu - with an Apple top left ---> iMovie ---> down to preferences ---> Here select to turn on Advanced tools .
Now it will work when You drop a clip onto another IN a MOVIE PROJECT ! (can not be done in Event's)
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Have you seen this?
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Greenscreen-on-a-Mac-using-iMovie
Have not tried it, but it looks promising.
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http://www.geethree.com/

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