PDFs into IMovie turning black

I am creating a architectural presentation using IMovie by importing PDF plans and using the Ken Burns effect to pan and zoom.
Importing is fine, but when I show photo settings, it suddenly renders and turns all the plans black. Have tried on other computers and same happens. PDFs when printed through Preview are fine, placing them in InDesign is also fine, just IMovie turns them black. Help, cannnot finish presentation with black plans
David
powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

welcome dsmkic to the  boards..
allthough 'possible', it sounds to me a little .. 'exotic' to use .pdf, natively a print-exchange format, in a video edit app ... have you tried to convert those pdf with a pic processor (PreView, Photoshop.. ) into pic/tiff/jpg... and use THESE in iM...?

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