Theme uses theme-styled transitions instead of cross-dissolve

iMovie 8.0.5
According to the Help
+By default, setting or changing the theme sets iMovie to insert transitions automatically. iMovie inserts standard cross-dissolve transitions with occasional theme-styled transitions between the clips in your project, replacing any transitions already in your project.+
But when I add a theme (to an existing project containing manually added transitions) it does the opposite. All the transitions are theme-styled - except the one after the last clip which is cross-dissolve.
Anyone know how to make it work as per the Help - or is the Help wrong?

Sounds to me that it could be a cache or rendered video preview. Have you tried clearing your media cache?

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When one splits clips, don't split close to what will be the beginning or the end of a shot.That's why you should always start the camera BEFORE the action begins and run AFTER the action ends. It only needs to be a 1/2 second to 1 second. Now before you add a cut or a transition you will automatically trim the end and the beginning of the two clips.
I start with a two-hour clip that includes hundreds of scenes, some ending abruptly, some not. If scene one suddenly ends and scene two begins, the natural place to make the cut is where the scene changes. If it happens that there is stuff immediately on each side of the cut that is of value, you would might prefer not to lose even one frame. Usually on one of the two sides the loss of one frame is not so bad. And if you sacrifice that frame you have almost everything you want. But it turns out that the situation is better than that. Since you can also add frames (I now realize), you can end without losing any frames at all. Of course, if you happen to be in a situation where there is plenty of useless stuff on both sides of a cut, the problem the solution is trying to solve does not come up. But I wouldn't change my filming habits just to avoid this problem of adding cross dissolves, since once you know what to handle it, it's not much of a problem. As to whether it is good practice to aim to have extra footage on both sides of a shot, sure. That seems like a good rule of thumb to me. But there are many situations where you don't have that opportunity. Say you were filming John Kennedy in Dallas or life among the Taliban or your kid falling off a horse. Life may not give you the chance to put useless footage at the end or beginning of your shot. In my case, I have hours of amateur home movies that stop at all sorts of odd places. I can't go back and reshoot it.
I suspect Apple simply expected you to do this. This will inherently eliminate what may be a tiny bug that you overcome by trimming 1 frame.
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ledanjohnson wrote:
Thanks for putting me right on the background box Luis.
I re-rendered, but this hasn't fixed my problem.
However I now think that the problem is with the map image. When I remove it, I can share my file.
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