Problem with applying effects in iMovie

Students are having problems whenever they apply video effects to footage. So far they have tried 'Adjust colours, B&W and brightness contrast' When applying the above effects the screen became pixelated. The students pressed apply anyway and the effect appeared to be applied but everytime they tried to playback their film, it froze when it reached the scenes that had an effect applied to them.
Many thanks
Andrea

IM6 originally was designed for OS 10.3.9 and works well with higher. I use 10.3.9 myself with no problems.
With your various computers and operating systems you may be getting a mismatch of iLife programs. A lot of times an outdated Quicktime can cause problems. 3rd party plug-ins can cause problems as well.
Before you do anything, make sure that your computers have at least 20GB of free space on your boot drive, after loading your project. Then I would try the oft applied maintenance of deleting preferences and doing a permissions repair. To delete preferences, close iMovie and trash the file named com.apple.iMovie.plist found in User (the house icon)/Library/Preferences. Then do a permissions repair using the Disk Utility app found in HD/Applications/Utilities. In the left hand pane of the Disk Utility window seclect your hard drive icon and then click on repair permissions. Takes about 3 minutes to repair. Then relaunch iMovie and see if you still have the problem. iMovie will recreate the .plist file that you deleted.
Also, iMovie playback is pretty low resolution. Your final burned project will display much better. You might try a quick share to iDVD, takes just a few minutes, and play back the project in iDVD. You should get much better resolution there, and a smoother playback.
I am reluctant to suggest updating programs for fear of possibly causing or aggravating any mismatches with the various machines and operating systems that you have in use. So I will leave that to your own discretion. As I mentioned, an outdated Quicktime can sometimes cause problems.
Perhaps others will post with more suggestions.
Good luck with this.

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