Preview/Video color is shifted to different colors

In iMovie '09, the video color is shifted to different colors and greyed out, but thumbnails seem alright.
Any Help Is Appreciated.
http://sites.google.com/site/problem1545/home
P.S. It is a hackintosh that hasn't had any other problems and don't go putting me down for having a hackintosh, I have 5 Macs and a lot of software (legally) from Apple.

Without knowing your exact color management settings we can't tell you much. By default Inkscape exports plain sRGB which should work just fine in a default AE with CM turned off as well...
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