Scrambled image with Ken Burns turned on

Often I select an image, then select the Show Photo Settings the image gets scrambled. Lots and lots of lines, horizontal lines, can't see what image is anymore. I have to quit and reenter iMovie.... arhg!

I would go for the old standard problem makers Permissions/Disk Check/Clean Cache
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    I was creating a movie with stills from iPhoto. The first 3 photos are using the Ken Burns effect just fine. Anything after that is absolutely unrecognizable. It looks like a scrambled mess of what is on my screen. I can actually see my Dock in the video. This is really strange. It occurs with photos I've edited and with ones I haven't. I have the latest version of Quicktime (7.0.4), iMovie (6.02) and iPhoto (6.0.4) as well as Tiger.
    I've never had this problem before. As long as I don't use the Ken Burns effect I'm fine.
    eMac   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

    Hi Appleman1958
    Thanks for the advise. I'll give it a try when I get home tonight. Went nuts last night looking for a way
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    are not nearly as sharp when I burn to a disc on iDVD. as they are when viewed on iMovie or Aperture?
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    Constant problems with Ken Burns rendering ...
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    Static rendering with some images with Ken Burns (diffrent from previous problem) , it seems to effect photos from some digital cameras more then otheres, but I have seen this problem affect just about every photo source. With my photos especially I can't use the Ken burns effect, because I get problems atleast 50%.
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    http://danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/iMovie3FixesIssues.shtml
    http://danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/iMovie4FixesIssues.shtml
    http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/%7Eshmhav/iMovieHD_5bugs.html
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    http://iMovie.danslagle.com

  • Zoom and pan with Ken Burns and then stop and hold the image

    Hi all,
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    I found a new solution.
    I select the ready "Ken Burnsed" photoclip and ctrl-click and choose copy, and then paste the exactly same kind of clip right behind the original. Then i go to the 'cropping, ken burns and rotation'- window, make shure that the start box is on the same crop as the ending of the original clip ( you can switch between start and end crops from the arrow thingy in the corner of the box) , and click crop. There I have the righty cropped stillframe right behind of the original.
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  • IMovie Crashing when importing photo with Ken Burns Effect

    iMovie is crashing all the time when I am trying to import a photo with Ken burns effect using media browser and hitting "apply". Is this a known problem ? If I dont apply Ken Buruns effect then it imports it fine.
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    Powerbook G4 12.1" 1.5Ghz   Mac OS X (10.4.5)  

    Welcome to the forum! And thanks for such an insightful post.
    I have two guesses here:
    o The Ken Burns code of iMovie has a problem with partitions
    o The Ken Burns code of iMovie has a problem with access rights
    I've never seen a Ken Burns problem with partitions (I've used multiple partitions for years with no problems). I suspect that's not the cause.
    But I think you've hit the nail on the head that iMovie may have a problem with permissions/access rights. I don't know exactly what the problem is — or whether it's caused by iMovie or OSX — but there is behavior that suggests something isn't right.
    I suspect the issue, whatever it is, causes a failure to save the rendered Ken Burns clip inside the project package. The red bar runs, but the rendered clip isn't saved to disk. My guess is OSX refuses to allow iMovie to save the file for OSX doesn't believe YOU have permission.
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    If you are adept at working with packages, you might try creating your own package (which contains all the normal folders) then Option-drag the files of the problem project to your package.
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    link from my home account to the directory with the
    movies on that partition. iMovie works correctly
    except for the Ken Burns photo rendering.
    I'm never sure whether creating such a link is a good idea or not, especially for the iLife apps. Some apps don't resolve the alias as they should, which creates other problems. A "Movies" alias sends iDVD a million miles beyond Jupiter, for example, where the iDVD project joins the space dust.
    For iMovie projects saved on partitions and external drives, I just save them inside a "iMovie 6 Projects" folder on that drive. (Every new version of iMovie gets a new folder.) For convenience, I may create aliases to help navigate there, but do nothing else. Everything just works.
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  • Export iPHOTO slideshow with ken Burns affects

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    When I apply Ken Burns effect, the photos turn red. Like a transparent layer of red overlay on top of the photo.
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  • Problems with Ken Burns effect

    Having a very frustrating time trying to get a decent slideshow. Like the KB effect but when I play it back the images jerk and jump. Smoothness totally
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  • Mixing photos with Ken Burns effect with 'still' photos

    I am just beginning to experiment with iMovie '09. My medium is still photographs and my goal was to create a movie with these photographs, and send them to iDVD to test the quality of the final images.
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