IMovie Themes problem

I recently purchased a iMac, it came with Leopard and just recently downloaded imovie 06. Every thing is fine, but there are no themes. How can i fix this?
All that shows up is this:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/RyanTTD/Picture1-18.png
Help Please!

Had to install iMovie 6.0.4

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I started a new project on iMovie recently. Everytime I try to add a theme it will add it to the timeline and render it but as soon as its done rendering the error sound will go off and the clip is erased. Sometimes the theme stays but when it does (on a rare occasion) it doesnt have anything in it, just black screens. I saved this project to an external hard drive but all the clips work fine just not the themes.

Anyone else experience this problem?
yepp, many, try the Forum's Search feature..
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Little iMovie theme problem here.
I have iMovie (iLife '11) installed on my iMac and it works fine. This weekend I installed iMovie on my MBP too. But when my wife tried to apply a theme to her movie (the holy communion of her niece if your wondering ;-) the above happened. Parts of the theme (Scrapbook) where black. Same goes for all themes.
When I opened the iMovie app (show package contents) I found that this also showed in the Resources folder. Where on my iMac they showed correctly. I thought I could solve this by replacing her Resources folder with the one from my iMac, but that didn't do the trick.
Anyone any ideas?
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Thnx for your suggestion Braden!
Unfortunately this didn't do the trick.
The app isn't bought via the App Store so I couldn't temove it via LaunchPad. I used App Zapper to delete it and then used the iLife '11 DVD to install iMovie alone.
Then I upgraded to 9.0.9 but to no avail. It keeps showing the black bar.
Here's how the Theme looks on my iMac (in iMovie > Resources).
And in Quartz Composer Visualizer
No black bars…
When I look up this file in iMovie > Rescources on my MBP it looks like the above, but with the black squares as the pic in my first post.

Loading themes problem

I'm posting this again, since i got no response in a topic which is "answered" whereas it's actually not :
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7989694&#7989694
Same "loading themes" problem for me, with iDVD 7.2.
I tried deleting the preferences file and started again idvd, nothing.
The only thing i can do to have it work is use another account, as a matter of fact. But i'd rather use my account, so i'd like to reinstall idvd. but how can i do it?
thanks
stéphane

Actually, iDVD used to work on the other account, because it was kind of blank (there was no video in it). I've just created a new imovie project, on this second account : now there are files in the "Videos" folder (sorry for my english, i'm not sure what's the word on a mac in english, but it french the folder is named "Séquences"), and iDVD freezes again. Even on the second account.
So, to sum up: *as soon as there is one file in the Video folder* (whether a imovie file or any other, like any .avi file), iDVD cant open and freezes...
dont you think that it could be worth reinstalling iDVD? but how? Or maybe there are other applications to make DVDs?
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I think, I have a similar problem! I crop a photo in iMovie and then I put it in a theme, for example the "passage" theme. In the theme the photo is displayed at its full resolution. That means, you see only a piece of the photo. Perhaps it is only a problem when you work with 1080i resolution, because in DV I didnt notice this problem.

Hello MacHeads: I downloaded Handbrake 0.9.1 for Tiger, so I can upload a homemade DVD for editing in imovie. Problem is I can't even access Handbrake Help book, because I think my firewall settings are preventing me. I tried turning off all my firewall

Hello MacHeads: I downloaded Handbrake 0.9.1 for Tiger, so I can upload a homemade DVD for editing in imovie. Problem is I can't even access Handbrake Help book, because I think my firewall settings are preventing me. I tried turning off all my firewall settings.? IDK if I'm even doing that right. Can anyone help out here?

You don't need Handbrake for that if it is your own DVD.
You need to convert the VOB files in the TS-Folder of the DVD back to DV which iMovie is designed to handle.
a DVD is in a compresed format called mpeg2, which is standard across all DVDs. This is what is known as a 'final delivery format' and is not suitable for editing. Because is is compressed, a 4.7GB DVD can hold a two hour movie (dual layer DVDs twice that), whereas the DV stream from a video camera, which runs at about 13GB per hour, is not compressed and IS intended for editing.
In other words you have to 'reverse engineer' the DVD back to an uncompressed format in ordfer to edit it. There is a penalty for doing this in terms of slight quality loss, but it is one you can live with.
When you have your DVD as an icon on your desktop, double-click it, and it will open to reveal a TS-Folder containing a number of various files, some called VOB. These are the constituent parts of any video DVD.
When you have downloaded and installed mpegStreamclip, and purchased and installed the Apple mpeg2 plugin, open mpegStreamclip and drag the entire TS Folder into its window. Then using the various menus available to you (just explore them and you will get the hang of it) ask it to convert to DV.
That DV file, which will be many times larger than the original TS Folder, and which can a while to create (be patient - make coffee or prune the roses!) is what you can now import into iMovie for editing etc.
When you have finished doing that, you then have to turn the project back into a DVD.
mpegStreamclip can be downloaded from here:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/mpegstreamclip.html
which is free, but you must also have the Apple mpeg2 plugin :
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2/
which is a mere $20.
Another possibility is to use DVDxDV:
http://www.dvdxdv.com/NewFolderLookSite/Products/DVDxDV.overview.htm
which costs $25.
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Obviously the foregoing only applies to DVDs you have made yourself, or other home-made DVDs that have been given to you. It will NOT work on copy-protected commercial DVDs, which in any case would be illegal.

IMovie Themes have disappeared!...

I have made many DVDs happily with iMovie.
When I started a new project today, however, all the menu themes had dissapeared for no discernable reason.
Only the "Travel" option is now available.
I've tried looking through the preferences etc. and cannot find any way of opening them again. The help option makes no mention of the problem, either.
I am running iLife '06 on Leopard...
I have since tried deleting the application and reloading it from the disc, but still have only the travel Themes available.
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iMovie Themes have disappeared!
Do you mean iMovie Themes or iDVD themes?
If you go to these locations on your hard drive do you see the themes?
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New iMovie '08 problems -- FireWire or new device issues?

Not sure if this is an iMovie '08 problem or an OS X problem. Here's the story --
Prior camcorder was a Panasonic, MiniDV format. Hooks up nicely with iMovie, via FireWire (400). I also have a WD My Book (500 GB) device to store the raw data (Event Library), which connects via FireWire (800). In the past, all three devices (Panasonic, My Book and MacBook Pro) all played nicely together.
Fast forward to now. Bought a new camcorder (problems with the Panasonic). It's a Canon ZR950 (MiniDV). With iMovie running, I first connect the WD device which is successfully mounted. I then hookup the new Canon and within a few seconds I get an error about a "device not cleanly shut down" (or words to that effect). Odd .... and when I try to connect to my new camcorder, I get a "no camera connected" error.
Rebooted, retried .... same issues. Another time I first connected the Canon and this time, iMovie successfully sees it. I go to connect the My Book and then the camcorder drops out.
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How do I get additional iMovie Themes?

Is there any way to get or make additional themes for iMovie 6? I particularly like the Brushscript them in iDVD, but this is not one of the themes that comes with iMovie.
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There are themes available now:
http://www.ilearnfast.com/eyeCandy_storeH.html#eyecandystore
not sure if this link was working a couple weeks ago when this thread was created, but I found this looking for the answer to the same question.
These were the only themes I found that will work with the Intel Macs.
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Another fix for iMovie launch problems We previously reported that, after updating to Mac OS X 10.5.3, users may have problems with launching iMovie. For most, iMovie refuses to opens, and the usual fix of removing the iMovie preferences, caches, and other iMovie settings files, and then relaunching the program does not appear to help. One user reinstalled the program with no luck resolving the problem.
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IMovie themes not rendering

I have a brand new iMac Core2Dou, with data transfered via Migration Assistant. When Im using the iMovie themes and hit apply it doesnt do anything and the black line dont fill with red. My previous CoreDuo iMac worked fine. Any help for me?

Hi L
This is out of my experience but You have done the most obvious I hope.
- delete the iMovie pref file
- run: Repair permissions (Apple Disk Util tool)
- start from another hard disk or CD/DVD then
run: Repair hard disk (Apple Disk Util tool)
- start a new account and log into this and re-try.
Try one at a time and see if it works.
Q:
- How much free space is there on Your int hard disk
- Is there any ext devices connected
- Mac OS X.4.8, iMovie v. 6.0.3 ? and QuickTime version (7.1.3) ?
- Did You put in any third party plug-ins to iMovie or into QT ?
- is you Mac as "factory delivered"?
- or did you install a new iLife version?
- or did you de-install any files/apps, e.g. using "Multilingual" etc. pp
(from Karsten)
- other programs that interferes like :
< Unsanity APE >
< FileVault > etc.
Sequre that there are at least 20Gb free space on the internal hard disk.
Yours Bengt W

Imovie themes taking a long time

OK, imovie themes are taking like 30 minutes to work. So far it hasen't even finished rendering. Whats the deal? Anyone having the same issue? It gets to the very last part of rendering, to where the whole bar is red and then it sits there. Help me out guys.
Sincerely,
John Cook

yes it does take a while, but then it has a lot to do... , rendering the daily rushes for the Lord of the Rings used to take overnight in London and ready on an iPod Drive for viewing next day New Zealand. I dont think they used iMovie.....
I had thought iLife 05 was not great, but 06 is much better(except iWeb) but then I ramped up the RAM last week
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Im already bored of the measly 5 themes available to the iMovie app, when or how can we get more?
I heard that using a Mac with iMovie may allow this, but im a PC desktop user so cannot make my own if its possible.

I have ended up buying a MacBook Pro which is no doubt what Apple wanted all along, tempted in with limited features on the iPad/iPhone and end up buying the whole shabang.
Im still dissapointed with limited themes on the MacBook too, if you do a lot of video you quickly work through whats there and start repeating styles.
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I'm starting a new thread. Sorry but I'm getting lost as to whom I'm talking to & what I've written ...who's on 1st what's on 2nd etc.
So the big news is ... On this 3rd total re-install of Tiger I've added something else to the install.
Classic install. And only Slick plugins with their updates.
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Can't remember the exact wording of what you refer to-"Install Mac OS 9 Disk Driver". You cannot boot in OS9 anymore. Only Classic.
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