PIP showing up as black screen?

I'm utterly befuddled.
I have a 12 core mac pro running two applications: Finder and iMovie.
Nonetheless, when I use PIP in iMovie, the "picture" shows up as a black screen.
What's more, sometimes the video freezes beneath the contemptable black screen.
Am I missing something? How can't this computer handle this? I really don't understand.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Do I need to optimize something?
Thanks so much,
Mike

Year: 2012
Memory: 12 GB
Graphics card: ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 MB
Displays: 2 Apple LED Cinema Displays
Standard cables and adapters
Mac OS X: 10.9.1

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