IMovie 10 scrambled graphics

I upgraded my iMac 2007 to iMovie 10 - it is having major issues converting a movie to the theatre/iTunes. The graphics is scrambled. Any ideas as to what might be going on?

You might run into some issues according to this:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6023

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