Photos in iMovie project float on a GREY background in iDVD widescreen.

I created a iMovie using photos. They are standard 4:3 ratio. When imported into an iDVD widescreen template (which is what I want), the photos have GREY bars on each side. Is there any way to change those bars to BLACK?

I believe that that is just playback view, and that the bars will be black on the DVD that you burn. That is, the photos will look like they are floating on a black background like you want. You can test this by saving your iDVD project as a disk image (an option on the file menu), and then viewing the disk image on your Mac's DVD player app.

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I work with iMovie 11 and never had any problem with previous versions.
Now I'm doing my first project in iM 11 and it just ignores my requests
When I set the duration in 'Project Properties' 'Apply to all photos' to e.g. 4 sec it will set the duration anything from 5 to 7 sec and no matter how often I change it will not react. If I set it to 3 sec (as an example) it will allow 5 sec. but never what I would like the duration to be.
This is a really annoying issue, more so when there a lot of still photos in the project.
Is there any way to rectify this or what else can I do???
thl

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A number of people have experienced the same problem and written about it on discussions. Lots of difference solutions as well. If you search using the title quoted above, you can read the solution I found. It's more complicated than it should be. I've never had to fiddle as much with duration times for transitions and still photos. Nevertheless, the steps I have described work for me. You will also find the steps another reader offered that may work for you if all of your transitions are set for the same durations and all of the still photos are as well.

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blms wrote:
... I feel more and more like reinstalling the software from the disk will fix these issues- there is clearly something seriously wrong with the app.
usually, I do NOT recommend reinstalling ( a ritual habitual on inferior OSs.. ) , but in your case, indeed, there IS something seriously wrong.. give it a try, and tell us, what happens..
did you do the 'trash plist' routine.. ?

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Chic, Welcome to the discussion area!
I'm not sure why you posted in this area since your question has nothing to do with wireless networking nor the AirPort Express (AX).
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Howto trash the iMovie pref files - they are two or more.
• Delete iMovie pref. file
iMovie pref. file resides.
Mac Hard Disk (start-up HD)/Users/"Your account"/Library/Preferences
and is named. (one or more of these)
com.apple.iMovie.plist
com.apple.iMovie3.plist
com.apple.iMovie7.plist
com.apple.iMovie8.plist
com.apple.iMovie9.plist
com.apple.iMovieApp.plist
and find
com.apple.iApps.plist
While iMovie is NOT RUNNING - move this/these file/s out on to desk-top.
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If You run Mac OS X.7 or more - then the Library in the User-account folder is invisibly and need to be set to be viewable. IT IS NOT in the Library on Root level (when opening MacintoshHD - first window = root level)
( It can be done like this: Open Terminal, then enter: chflags nohidden ~/Library
Press return, then restart, and it will always be visible until the next major update, when you do the same thing again. )
Yours Bengt W

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Painful in iDvd to do interviews when they happen to fall over the 60 minute mark, isn't it?
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Toast might be another option worth looking at....
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1 - I've noticed that while editing iMovie, at the end of my actual movie stuff, which is 2:50:45:09 long, there's additional "dead space" that goes out to 4:00:12:19......how do I get rid of this "dead space"?
2 - this "dead space" is recognized on iDVD as actual footage, so if I can take care of problem #1, then #2 will go away
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hi,
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I believe that that is just playback view, and that the bars will be black on the DVD that you burn. That is, the photos will look like they are floating on a black background like you want. You can test this by saving your iDVD project as a disk image (an option on the file menu), and then viewing the disk image on your Mac's DVD player app.

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