Pictures disappear in Show Photos Settings

Student can successfully set Ken Burns, adjust time, but when he goes back to edit Ken Burns, the screen is black. We can play the movie, and the pictures play successfully, but obviously, can't edit.
Threw away the pictures and started again - same thing happened.

Welcome to the boards.
Try deleting the pref files and runnig disk utility. KB has been giving many people fits lately. My students have had no problems but I am running tiger.

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  • "show photo settings" and ken burns glitch? please help :(

    hi, i'm having a problem,
    my software is the latest version, so is quicktime, all my updates are up to date, i'm not using an external hardrive.
    i was creating a music video composed of all still pictures and everything was going fine untill today.
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    the slide bars for the ken burns effect have disappeared.
    a checkmark on the imovie display is now visible and the apply and reverse buttons have disappeared.
    i can no longer exit out the photo settings window the same way as before.
    when pictures are added to the timeline they are much too long.
    i'm unable to keep the ken burns affect box checked, it keeps unchecking itself and it wont allow me to change any photo settings on certain pictures and on the ones it will allow me to when i press "apply" or the checkmark it stalls and wont render the file (the red line doesn't fill and just stays there)
    when changing the length or display time of the picture it will delete itself and replace it with the next picture in line.
    can anyone help me? i've spent a massive amount of time on this video and would like to finish it. i dont know what the problem is. maybe i clicked something i shouldn't have?
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    WOW!
    ... how long does your poor Mac need for booting??
    The >40y old Xerox metaphor of a Desktop/Folders/trashbin had the concept of simulating reallife.. would you store ~1000 pics on your desk while glueing them into an album (ever glued 1k pics into an album?) ...?
    I assume, your System is 'cluttered'. totally cluttered.
    try to clean up ... in Finder, clean your File 'System'... create folders (many folders...), use the pre-installed structure your Mac came with (how about storing pictures in... ehm, Pictures?), why not using iLife as intended (import into iM from iPhoto), why not using the integrated 'File Management' of iPhoto to create albums, to give your mass of pics some structure, finally consider to use approbiate apps (if you try to create a stopmotion-like movie, QTpro or Boinx' istopmotion are better tools) ...
    keep in mind, a Mac needs at last 10-15GB free on internal drive to act normal.
    export as much as you can to external drives (firewire connected, 'MacOsExtended' formatted), don't forget to give these harddrives structure too .. you know how to create Folders in Finder?
    after all is set and done, your desktop is clean, everything is in its place, use Disk Utility to check&repair... finally, reboot your Mac, give it a chance to 'recreate' itself in better shape
    ... and there's still a high chance, that the fragile file management of the 20$ consumer app iMovie is still overwhelmed by >1000 stills in one single project...

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    Not emptying the trash is a terrible solution. As the imovie becomes too big to fit on a DVD unless the trash is gone!
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    Thanks for your reply! Your suggestion makes perfect sense.
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    So...I've added all of my pics into an iMovie file, but for some reason, with this particular movie, I can't edit my photos once I click on "show photo settings". It's just a black screen but the cursor still runs across for the ken burns effect... any ideas why this would happen?
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    There's a bug in iMovie 6 which discards iMovie's copy of any photos you've imported to the project. When you empty the Trash the photos are discarded, so Updating a clip creates a black clip.
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  • Black window for Show Photo Settings

    Using iMovie 6.3. I have edited several photos and put them in place for iMovie. but without Ken Burns effect. When I want add editing, ie. Ken Burns effect, I get a black window which makes editing impossible. This only happens with photos previously dragged to bottom row and not to new attempts. When I click Show Photo Settings, the edit window goes black. Can I avoid this?
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    Open iMovie
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  • Hide/Show Photo Settings

    6 has gone and put the Ken Burns setting behind a button. I want "Show Photo Settings" to be my default. I hate having to press the button each time I want to set Ken Burns on and off.

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  • My "Show Photo Settings" button not working.

    The button is light grey and won't function. I'm sure it's an easy fix and I just am forgetting something obvious.

    There must be a photo selected in the Photos list — or a previously-imported photo clip in the Timeline — for the Show Photo Settings button to be enabled.
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    I am trying to change the viewing time of photo clips in my movie. When I click on Media, sometimes the "show Photo settings" tab is active, but sometimes not! very frustrating...any iaeas? I have saved the project, closed imovie, reopened...it's very skittish!

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  • Missing image when using "show photo settings"

    When I click any of my images in the timeline then select "show photo settings", the preview pane is completely black except for the "photo settings" adjustments.
    It worked yesterday!?
    Thanks,
    Mark

    It sounds like you've bumped into an iMovie bug that trashes the photo copy iMovie keeps inside the project. When you try to update the clip the source photo is missing, so the preview is black.
    More here:
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=714698&tstart=0
    Karl

  • Show Photo Settings stays grey

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    Karl

  • Show Photo Settings

    In the tutorials, reference is made to selecting "Show Photo Settings." Well, I cannot find the "Show Photo Settings" options, button or icon.
    Suggestions?

    Example text from tutorial below:
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  • "Show Photo Settings" distorts image.

    Load image into timeline.
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    cr

    Thanks for this response
    Bengt Wärleby wrote:
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    • Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk if it is less than 10Gb should rather have 25Gb
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    Screen must be set to Million-colors
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  • "Show Photo Settings", my clip is black

    De Javous all over agan. I am using HD 6.03, and have been for quite a while. Back a couple of years ago there was a software flaw the was fixed, now it has come back to haunt me.
    When i have a clip I want to modify, I go into "Show Photo Settings", my clip is black, why is this happining again?
    paul

    Hello, Paul,
    Yes, my workflow is similar to yours. I think the main thing is to do the photos first and the music last, as you are doing.
    I put in my videos first, cropping out the parts I know I won't need. Then I put in the photos. I know that I will eventually have to crop the video clips again to get what I want with the photos, but initially I just put the photos in the correct order. Then I 'fix' the photos to be the right size, duration, etc.
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    Next I do titles and transitions.
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