Problems updating photos

Question

I posted about this a while ago, and left it for a while, thinking I'd come back to it with a fresh head.
This basically used to be so straightforward.
You know how long your photo slideshow is, so time each photo accordingly to fit the music. But usually when you get to the end it's not quite right, so you just update some of the photos until it fits.
Now it doesn't seem to want to re-render the photos when you update - they just resize, which looks OK, until you play it back, and there are remnants of the original underneath somewhere, and it jumps around horribly.
The only thing that came up before was something about there being an issue if the trash had been emptied. But I've tried it again with a new project, so no emptying of the trash. In fact I notice now that just adding a photo to the timeline creates something in the trash. (anound 120k worth) - so not sure what's going on at all.
Is anyone else having similar problems? If so, know of any workarounds? (although I thought the whole mac thing was that it just works, so shouldn't need workarounds....)
Might a re-install help? In which case how do you actually uninstall one part of iLife? Just drag it from applications to the trash?
Iain

Answer 1

Is the project saved on an external drive? Have you ruled out drive issues and software plug-in issues, like these?
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1852869#1852869
Yes, there is a bug in iMovie 6 that affects the re-rendering of photos imported with the Ken Burns checkbox ON (in Photo Settings). But if you haven't emptied the iMovie trash that's probably not the cause.
In fact I notice now that just adding a photo to the timeline creates
something in the trash. (anound 120k worth) - so not sure what's going on
at all.
That's iMovie's copy of the imported image that iMovie 6 places in the Media folder. It's stored in the Media folder so you can re-render the image later. iMovie should NOT be putting it in the trash. That's the bug. Note it doesn't go there if the photo is imported with the KB checkbox is OFF.
If you can't solve the re-rendering problem, try re-importing the image used at the end, this time importing with the KB checkbox OFF. That should let you change its duration successfully later. After everything plays as you want you can select the still image clip and Update it to a rendered clip by turning on the KB checkbox. (That's optional, but it avoids the other iMovie bug that adds jaggies to some images when you send it to iDVD.)
Karl
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