Ken burns effects go black

Does anyone know why when I click on a photo from iphoto in the media portion of imovie the clip sometimes goes black. Also sometimes it will look as though it is rendering and then once it's done rendering it goes black? Any help would be great. This is so frustrating. Thanks for your help.

Hi
There can be a problem with iMovie 6.0.3 or 4 and Mac OS X.5.2 AND QuickTime 7.4.5.
Trying to figure out this.
Else:
Not knowing the origin to Your problem - General approach when in trouble is as follows:
• Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk if it is less than 10Gb should rather have 25Gb
• Hard disk is untidy: Repair Permissions, Repair Hard disk (Apple Disc Util tool)
• Delete iMovie pref file - or rather start a new user/account - log into this and re-try
• Third party plug-ins that doesn't work OK (not relevant for iMovie’08)
• Program miss-match: iMovie 5.0.2, up to Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK
• Program miss-match: iMovie 6.0.3 or 6.0.4, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• Program miss-match: iMovie’08 v. 7.0.1, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
iMovie pref file resides: Mac Hard Disk (start-up HD)/Users/"Your account"/Library/Preferences
and is named: com.apple.iMovie.plist
While iMovie is NOT RUNNING - move this file out to desk-top.
Now restart iMovie.
Please feedback if it starts to work OK !
Yours Bengt W

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