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Hi guys,
first post so please be gentle.
I have a MBA with iPhoto 11 and iMovie 11 runnion Lion, I made a movie with video clips and some photos and all was working fine, photos imported from their event folder in iPhoto.
Now today i decide to add a couple more photos to the movie, in the filmstrip view i can see my photos and give them ken burns etc, however when i look in the movie preview window when it gets to the photo it just has a still from the preceeding video. This is the same if i export the video to itunes etc.
when i try to add a subtitle to the photo normally you can see the photo in the background however now i only see black.
have tried editting the photo alittle in iPhoto as mentioned elsewhere but that doesnt help.
Thanks in advance
Tigger

And 7.83Gb on a 60Gb hard. Then I think that there might be problems.
As I use to recommend a minimum of 25Gb free space - and on a MBA with a SSD-drive on 60Gb this will not match.
I wonder if this is at all possibly to get to work. As MBA usually do not have any FireWire connections and then not the possibility to use an external hard disk as Start-Up (Mac OS) HD. It will not boot via USB/USB2.
If You got Thunderbolt - that might work - BUT I don't know if one can boot via this ? (ask at Apple Store)
And if You locate iPhoto library to any other HD - iMovie will not find it.
The needed space is for iMovie and Mac OS temp. files - and they too can not be addressed externally.
One working - but expensive solution is to upgrade the 60Gb drive to a larger one - BUT THIS might be anything from impossibly to EXPENSIVE.
I think this is way out of my arsenal of solutions - Sorry
Hopefully more resourceful people will fill in.
Yours Bengt W

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