Ken Burns preview is black

Hi, my Mac is G5 PPC - 10.4.8 - GeForce FX 5200 - iMovie 6.0.3
My problem is: I open new project by iMovie (only photos); I have modified the first photos with Ken Burns without problems, after they are not successful more to make modifications, because preview of K.B it appears completely black. Fortunately I was hardly at the beginnig of the job....Help me
PM G5 - DP 1.8 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Are you trying to edit a previously imported image rendered by the Ken Burns Effect? If so, there's an iMovie bug that prevents you from updating the clip when you empty the iMovie trash. It also turns the preview black.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1912675&#1912675
:)Sue

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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

Ken Burns Effect - OFF!!!

I just imported about 45 pics into iMovie and they all came imported with the Ken Burns effect and I did not want it all on of them. I mean, every couple of pictures it's cool, but the same effect one after the other is beyond boring.
When I tried to select them all and turn it off it "sort of" worked. It turned the effect off (or so I thought) but then the picture has this major jumpy action that it takes on. When it previews a clip where KBfx has been turned off it zooms in for a split second and then JUMPS to final full version of the picture. Not the look I was going for...
Any suggestions?? Especially on turning thing off so that the pics are imported with that feature.
Thanks so much!

When I tried to select them all and turn it off it
"sort of" worked. It turned the effect off (or so I
thought) but then the picture has this major jumpy
action that it takes on. When it previews a clip
where KBfx has been turned off it zooms in for a
split second and then JUMPS to final full version of
the picture. Not the look I was going for...
The Ken Burns Effect user interface takes some getting used to. Sometimes it appears to have a mind of its own. It doesn't, actually, but you have to figure out why it's doing what it's doing.
• A crucial feature is that the displayed Ken Burns settings, and the miniature KB preview window, reflect the SELECTED CLIP. That means that if you configure the settings you want, THEN select a clip, the settings will switch to what they were when you imported that clip.
So... to change a previously-imiported clip you have to FIRST select it, THEN change the KB settings.
• When you select a clip, the Ken Burns preview window always does its dance, all on its own, if the checkbox was on when you imported the photo. You have to pause for that dance to finish before you change the KB settings. If you don't wait for the dance to finish, you'll probably accidentally set the wrong thing. Although you've intended to set the Start setting, for example, you will probably have set the End setting. That happens because, on its own, the dance has activated the End setting.
• When you've figured out how all that works, there's one more hurdle.
If the KB checkbox was off when you imported the photo, KB will fail to display the settings of the selected clip in the timeline. Depending on what those settings were, the Update button will create a clip that's not at all what you want. If the photo was imported with a pan or zoom, for example, updating the clip without manually resetting the KB settings will create quite a mess.
It's a bug. It doesn't happen when the KB checkbox is ON when the photo was imported.
• One final thing. It's not obvious how to re-set the pan and zoom to 1.00 (no pan and zoom.) The trick is to click on the Start half of the Start/End thingy, wait for the dance to finish, then click on it again, then drag the zoom slider a bit to the right, then all the way left. Repeat for the End half of the Start/End thingy. Now both the zoom and the pan are centered.
I know, Apple didn't use the A Team when they designed this user interface.
Karl

Preview of Ken Burns Effect is a black screen!!

So, I am doing a movie for my parents, and I have 102 photos that I have loaded into IMovie. I loaded them in to the clips section, as I am not a huge fan of iPhoto personally. At first, no problems, but later, as I dragged photos into the playhead area, my photos wouldn't allow me to preview the Ken Burns Effect. I would drag them into the playhead, click on "Meda" button, and then select the Show Picture Settings button. The preview screen goes black as the effect scrolls through the process, disallowing me to see the preview. I have deleted the pictures from IMovie, re-inserted them, and started over (AAAARRRRRGGGGGG!), and it happened again.
Any Ideas? Thanks for the help!
Oh, and I have made no modifications to my machine (no new graphics card), and the pictures are all in .jpg format.

Hi Tonyy13.
I am presenting the same problem. I can set the Ken Burns' effect while I am with the pictures before placing them in the Clip or Timeframe viewer. After placing them there, if I try to edit the picture (either by right clicking and choosing -edit picture or by control clicking and doing the same, I ended up with a black background. If you change the setting in this black ackground and update this changes they will be effective. So, you can change the slide duration, and everything in the sliders but without an image.
I was running System 10.3.9 and I thought this was the reason. Today, I went and bought Tiger but it didn't sove the problem. I do believe it is a bug in the program. According to Apple's Help and David Pogue's "The Missing Manual" this shouldn't happen.
If you solve this problem reply to this posting. If I did I will reply to your posting. Thank You.

Preview of Ken Burns effect doesn't work with some pictures

I just recently installed a new graphics card (ATI Radeon 7500) on my Sawtooth, 1.2 GHz, so I could utilize the Ken Burns effect in imovie HD. It works but only partly. It works great but with some pictures the preview pane doesn't show the photo. What I see is a what looks like bad reception on an old TV (fuzzies and the picture is distorted so bad you can't even make it out). With other pictures the preview shows up fine. I'm sure I've loaded the drivers. What else can I do?

Hi Tonyy13.
I am presenting the same problem. I can set the Ken Burns' effect while I am with the pictures before placing them in the Clip or Timeframe viewer. After placing them there, if I try to edit the picture (either by right clicking and choosing -edit picture or by control clicking and doing the same, I ended up with a black background. If you change the setting in this black ackground and update this changes they will be effective. So, you can change the slide duration, and everything in the sliders but without an image.
I was running System 10.3.9 and I thought this was the reason. Today, I went and bought Tiger but it didn't sove the problem. I do believe it is a bug in the program. According to Apple's Help and David Pogue's "The Missing Manual" this shouldn't happen.
If you solve this problem reply to this posting. If I did I will reply to your posting. Thank You.

Photos on timeline showing black when using ken burns effect

My photos in the project are not visible in the preview window when selecting'show settings' after the ken burns effect has been applied. The arrow moves but the screen is black.
Any ideas ??

Although you've posted in the iMovie 5 forum, that sounds like a well-known iMovie 6 bug. If you are using iMovie 6 you may have encountered the bug:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=714698&tstart=0
Karl

Black window when revising Ken Burns effects on photos

Can someone help overcome the black preview window when I try to revise settings for Ken Burns effects on photos in the timeline?
Many thx!
iBook 14 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Are you trying to edit a previously imported image
rendered by the Ken Burns Effect? If so, there's an
iMovie bug that prevents you from updating the clip
when you empty the iMovie trash. It also turns the
preview black.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=191
2675?
:)Sue
Yes, and thank you for the link to the thread. Since there are still varying results, I was hoping that Apple had published a patch or announced a new version that fixed this bug that is now very old. Fyi, my computer won't download the latest version, but my 'updater' says one exists.
Best regards.
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Large slideshow, Ken Burns, allow black, etc. failure.

Hi all,
I'm trying to produce a large slideshow for a team year end celebration. It's about 1000 images and 30 minutes. I tried Aperture, but the processing time was taking forever (some posted days for a show shorter than mine). iMovie seems to be okay, but the I can't seem to figure out how to apply a generic Ken Burns, Allow Black to all the images. Ironically, Aperture looked great, but can't process, iMovie can process (I've a lot of history with traditional videos), but seemingly can't get the stills correct. . . .Any suggestions?
FWIW, I've a really old legacy system. Mac Pro 1,1. OS 10.7.5, still have iMovie and iDVD.
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Steve

steve hutchcraft wrote:
... trying to produce a large slideshow ..
.. why not using iPhoto?
I'm pretty sure, you do not 'edit' a thousands pics, set 1.5.sec each, add a generic transition, perhaps some 'motivational' music - done.
You can export the slideshow from within iPhoto as a 'mov', for further refinement (discs, sticks, mp4, whatever....)
steve hutchcraft wrote:
... for a team year end celebration...
just did it for my son's team - 2TB of video (1 season=1y, 6 cams, 22 games, 70min each) , shrunk to an 8min celebration
tons of slowmo, grading, ... stuff
speaking of music: this years selection: 'X Ambassadors/Welcome to the Jungle' .. the kids recognize it from the 'Before The Game/Beats' commercial... done in FCPX, not iMovie, for sure.
.. I started with a single photocam and 'slideshows' eight years ago too ....
welcome to the jungle ......

Stopping the Fade to Black on Ken Burns Slide Show?

I am trying to make a slideshow using the Ken Burns template. I want to be able to make a loop-able file (.mov or other), so I can make a looping DVD. At the end of my sideshow, there is a one second fade to black - Is there any way to stop that fade out or is there another way to do this effect without the fade out?
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!http://dlsphoto.com/a3SlideTrans.jpg!

Black screen when trying to apply Ken Burns effect

I drag a clip to the timeline, click on media-show photo settings, then the box for ken burns effect shows up but the screen goes black and it says it doesn't recognize the file. I enlarged, dragged and it still doesn't work. It worked earlier in the day...? I defragmented and made more disk space. What could the problem be?!?!?

Ok, I've read what has been posted, but it doesn't work for me. My situation: Macbook Pro, 2.16 ghz, 100gig drive mostly filled up. So, I've attached a USB Western Digital 1 tb drive to do video work. I previously used a WD 500 gb drive. I don't remember, but this may be the first movie that I've done since upgrading to OS 10.
Anyway, using the WD drive, the first time I tried using KB effect was 2 wks ago and got the black picture after applying KB. So, I did without. Same thing happened again yesterday. I perused the subject here, did all those things, and the same thing happened again.
Then, I moved the iMovie file to my computer and tried it and it worked. I moved the file to the external drive and it still worked. BUT, it wouldn't let me apply KB using the file on the WD drive. Back to the computer and it worked again.
So, any one got any ideas as to why it will work on the computer but not on the external drive, at least in the application phase?
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I have an older version of imovie. After I change the photos using the Ken Burns effect and save them, the next time I open the file and click 'show photo settings' to change the zoom, the picture appears black and I can't change the zoom?

I have a five year old version of imovie that generally works fine. However, when I add a photo using the 'Ken Burns' effect then save the movie, the next time I open the file and click 'show photo settings' the picture appears black and I cannot change the zoom. Any suggestions?

Have you rendered both iOS 7 and iOS 8 (both of which will work on your iPhone 5) out of the question entirely without trying every possible configuration? The animations can be disabled entirely, if that's the problem. And if the whiter-brighter user interface is the problem, there's reverse-contrast modes that darken everything. You can expose accessibility controls to gain immediate access to these functions to toggle them on and off. I guess my point is you may have decided against upgrading the OS based on an early experience with iOS 7 when Apple has since made changes in later revisions to address some of the usability complaints.
Now, Apple's instructions for downloading older versions of apps is to do so from the Purchased list, not from the app's product page.
See here:
Install the latest compatible version of an app on an earlier version of iOS or OS X - Apple Support
Let us know how that works for you.

Black screen for ken burns ...

I saved my images and this morning i had to do some ken burns effect, and when i clicked on photo settings.. nothing appeared, just a black screen, do i have to redo the images and their respective ken burns?
thanks!

Are you trying to update an existing clip created with the Ken Burns effect?
When we import a photo with the Ken Burns effect iMovie creates a copy of the photo and stores it inside the project. Trouble is, there's a bug in iMovie 6 that discards the photo when we empty the iMovie Trash so it's not available when we try to update the clip. It turns black.
The solution is to re-import the photo to a new clip, then don't empty the iMovie Trash until the project is finished.
Karl

Photo Settings not showing up; cannot remove Ken Burns effect

Hello,
Earlier today, I selected the photo setting button and a little box showed up with the Ken Burns effect options in it, however now when I select photo settings, the only thing that shows up is the preview of the of photo zooming/panning. Please help... how do I get back to that little box so I can remove the Ken Burns effect from my photos! Thanking you!

Also having the same problem. When going to show photo settings, it shows black screen. Un checking Ken Burns and updating does nothing. All photos in slide show have same super zoom of Ken Burns with no way to remove it or alter it.
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I emptied my caches.
I've restarted my computer.
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Just saw this June thread - I have iMovie 6.0.4 and am having this exact problem. I can't believe that there aren't more threads about it. This is the first video I've done since upgrading to OS 10.5 and iLife 7 and then importing the old iMovie 6.0.4 for obvious reasons.
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Jerky ken burns zoom

i made slide show in iphoto, used some custom ken burns, then when imported to idvd6, the zooms sometimes are jerky when previwed in idvd; also, what i see on the preview in slide show i photo isnt always what ends up happening........

When you empty the iMovie 6 Trash, there's a bug that (inappropriately) discards the copy of the source image iMovie stores inside the project. That makes it impossible to Update the clip later. When you try, that turns the clip black.
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=392740&tstart=0
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