Scrambled image when I poke the "Show Photo Settings" button

See the pdf file http://www.kvanderstel.com/iMovie_problem.pdf
It doesn't matter is the image is a scan or a digital picture from a camera. When it does it, I click on the desktop and the image clears, I click back on iMovie and it does it again. If I click on the "Hide Photo Settings" repeatedly, it often clears up. It's really quite random, but it's really annoying.

Ok I'm screwed.
I moved the iMovie files out of the Receipts folder and then found my original OS X disk. I selected only iMovie to install, but not hardly any runs on my mac now. No iTues, no iMovie, no iDVD, no print drivers and a bunch of my applications all seem dead. The icon bounces a time or two then silence, nothing else happens.
I then tried to reinstall some. Cache Out X for example, but even then nothing happens.
When I print to my ip1600 Canon, it does print but then I get "The application PrinterProxy has quit"

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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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Hi
I am using IMovie HD v 6.0.3 on my mac book pro v 10.4.11. When I press "Show Photo Settings" in imovie, all I see is a large preview window with the photo panning and zooming. There is no window box with a small preview window, zoom, speed controls, and Ken Burns check box, etc. on the interface. So, as a result, the only control I have is a stop, and grab.
Where is my Ken Burns window with all the controls? Is there a download or a fix for this? What am I missing? I have a project loaded with photos and a deadline, so I figured if I used imovie instead of final cut pro, it would be much quicker and easier.
Please help....
Thanks,
Anneita

Thanks for your reply! Your suggestion makes perfect sense.
However, just before I received your reply, I made an appointment with a Mac Genius at the local Apple store, and guess what! The transparent box was hiding way down the bottom of the screen, and that's why it couldn't be seen. He found it! Duhhhhh......
Thanks again.

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In v6.01, I can drag a batch of jpegs to the edit line,, a one at a time I can click on the picture, Click on the Media button,, click on the "Show Photo Settings" button and the Preview window goes black. No picture appears. The only workaround I have found is to delete the picture and drag a new one in.
This has happened on one,, or several pictures in a row.
Save,, Save,, Save........

Not emptying the trash is a terrible solution. As the imovie becomes too big to fit on a DVD unless the trash is gone!
There's another (better) workaround that's been discovered since this Topic began. It rescues iMovie's own copy of the source image so the image is available later when you want to Update the clip. The workaround also lets you empty the iMovie trash to discard OTHER items.
When a photo is imported with the Ken Burn checkbox ON, iMovie immediately puts its own copy of the photo in the iMovie Trash. You'll see the Trash bulge by 117K or so. (It shouldn't go in the Trash, but it does.)
The workaround is to immediately open the iMovie Trash window and drag the image to the Clips pane. It's no longer in the Trash so it won't be discarded when you empty the Trash.
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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.
the "show photo settings" display box has a glitch or something.
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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i'm estimating around _1000 pictures_ ... they are all being stored on the desktop ...
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...

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.

The Photo Settings window is probably hidden off-screen.
The Photo Settings palette "sticks" to the project window. If you position the palette to the right of the project window, close the palette, move the project window to the right side of the screen, then open the palette, the palette has been moved with the project window and is now located off screen.
Move the project window back and the palette should immediately reappear, or appear when the Show Photo Settings window is next pressed.
If you can't find it, re-launch iMovie.
This is one of a multitude of iMovie 6 user interface bugs. If history holds it will probably never be fixed.
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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!

Hello, and welcome to the discussions.
First, close iMovie and reopen it and see if it now works. If not, delete iMovie's preference file. Close iMovie, go to your Home folder (YourUserName)/ Library/Preferences/com.apple.imovie.plist Be sure to select the correct one; if you have another version of iMovie the plist file for it might have a number such as iMovie7.
Drag the plist file to the trash. iMovie will create a new fresh one for you when you relaunch it.
Reopen iMovie and see if it works now.
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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:
To remove the pan and zoom effect from a photo in your movie:
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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!?
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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
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No image when click on "show photo settings"

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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"Show Photo Settings" distorts image.

Load image into timeline.
Select "media"
Select "Show Photo Settings"
Image is immediately distorted
see example of distorted image here:
http://www.thecriticalcrab.net/postits/imov_distort.html
I've had this problem before when rendering an image.
Sometimes restarting iMovie helps.
But things seem to have gone worse.
Help appreciated.
cr

Thanks for this response
Bengt Wärleby wrote:
Think I've seen this too - several Years ago.
General approach when in trouble is as follows.*
• Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk if it is less than 10Gb should rather have 25Gb
I have 829 GB specifically to address this limitation.
Delete iMovie pref file
and is named. *com.apple.iMovie.plist *
While iMovie is NOT RUNNING - move this file out to desk-top.
Now restart iMovie.
Did this to no positive effect. same problem persists
Hard disk is untidy. Repair Permissions, Repair Hard disk (Apple Disc Util tool)
Did this. Still no fix.
• Garageband-fix. Start it, Play a note and Close it. Re-try (Corrects an audio problem that hinders iMovie)
Never use Garageband. so bypassed this for now.
Screen must be set to Million-colors
Check
Third party plug-ins that doesn't work OK (not relevant for iMovie’08 or 09)
That would be unfortunate and somewhat difficult to locate, I think.
iMovie updated ?
I didn't know there was a 6.0.4. Looking for a download now.
QuickTime updated ?
Have QT 7.6.4 installed
Mac OS version ?
10.4.11
All that being said and done, I think I determined the problem.
i.e. IMAGE SIZE.
Typically, I downsize & export images from iPhoto to a separate file and drag them from that file to the Clips or Timeline. Recently, being lazy I was trying to import directly from iPhoto via iMovie's Media/Photo area.
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