IMovie transitions and titles have black behind them

When I first installed iLife, everything worked fine. All of a sudden the titles and transitions have black behind them as if it's not keying right. (eg. the time and date graphic has a black bar behind it that should be there and the comic book look just shows black instead of the video.)
Am I the only person this has happened to?

Hi duff_golf - welcome to the forum!
Firstly, regarding your original post correction - for a short time after posting you can still edit your post. A small icon appears to the left of the other icons on the top right corner of your post. Click on this, edit your post, then click on Edit Message (I think it's called) in the bottom left corner of the Edit screen to republish your edited post.
Now to your problem. The first thing I would do is to close iMovie then delete (trash) iMovie's preference file. It's found in your User>Library>Preferences folder and is named "com.apple.iMovie8.plist". Don't worry, iMovie will create a new .plist file with the default settings when next opened. You may need to go to iMovie>Preferences in the Menu and change some settings to suit your own preference.
Hope this solves your issue. Sometimes the preference file can become corrupted and this can cause iMovie to behave strangely.
John

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