Memory Error in iMovie

I'm new to the mac and imovie, enjoying both, but have hit a problem in my first movie.
When I try to add transitions to clips I am getting a message warning that there is not enough memory to complete the activity.
I have closed and reopened the app, restarted the machine, closed all other applications etc, but still the problem exists.
My mac is a G5 iMac, 1gb, 213gb free on the hard disk, running Tiger.
Any ideas?
thanks

Lennart,
unless I have direct source access, or one of iMovie's current developers speaks up I have no way of knowing this for sure. But when looking at crash logs, all those NSXxx:yyy methods on the thread stack do point to Cocoa (or NextStep, which is Cocoa's precursor). I know that this can simply be a case of embedded views in Carbon, but since Cocoa can be mixed freely with C/C++, and iMovie is built in XCode, I believe that the developers use Cocoa when it suits them -- especially if it makes their job easier (whew - long sentence; sorry about that).
Carbon is used for the effects - the interface uses a GWorld context, which in itself is requires Carbon. The UI, however, seems to call a lot of Cocoa (witness the NS... methods on the stack). Therefore I believe that iMovie uses Cocoa for the UI. All plug-ins use Carbon, as the API demands it.
The brushed metal look itself can be achieved simply by setting a flag, and is no indication of the underlying technology, I concur.
-ch
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