No thumbnails in iMovie projects and timeline

When I import any move in iMovie '09, iMovie shows message that it's creating thumbnails (when it's finishing importing video file). But in the end I see only gray rectangles instead of thumbnails, both in project and in the timeline panes. Thumbnail is shown only when I move mouse cursor over each particular thumbnail. As soon as I move cursor away, only gray rectangle is shown again. I cleaned cache, installed QT7, nothing helps to solve situation... Any suggestions?

Try deleting iMovie's preference file. Close iMovie, then in Finder navigate to your user folder Library>Preferences. Locate and trash the file named "com.apple.iMovie8.plist". When next opened, iMovie will create a new preference file with the default settings. You may need to change some settings to suit your own preference. To do this, in iMovie's menu go to iMovie>Preferences and in the window that opens select your preferences under each of the tabs.
Trashing the preference file may help when iMovie is behaving oddly and is usually the first troubleshooting trick to try.
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