Titles cause fluttering clips

When editing an iMovieHD which was originally imported footage into iMovie 4 and adding titles, the underlying clips start to flutter (or roll quickly, like old films out of sync). I tried to figure out if I had inadvertently inserted some "effect", but none to be seen.
Does anyone recognize this?
-Thanks
/Uno

Yes, it certainly proved interesting - and frightening! I don't know how many movies I have now inadvertedly, and in ignorance, converted in either edited or unedited format from iMovie4 into iMovie HD, with similar difficulties lurking. However, the document gave me the clue, and I imported the clips from the iMovie HD contents package into a new project, and both titles and transitions worked properly.
This is time-consuming, though, and had I known about the difficulties I would not have bothered to convert. I am not even sure I took the old iMovie away - does iLife replace it?
Thanks for the advice, Sue!

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The video portion of my movie clips keep freezing when I add a title to it in Premiere 9. The audio portion continues playing without issues, only the video portion seems to be affected. Any thoughts?

Thanks for the help. I have looked at the information and will review it all again.
I just spent another 2 hrs. + trying to still resolve the problem. I have started a new project, I uninstalled and reinstalled with their people, and when I was told a higher lever technician would get back to me in 3-4 days, I started to politely demand some kind of explanation for taking my valuable time. I have used Premiere Elements for years and now, after being told by their techs to upgrade to PE9, I am have a time-consuming issue.
So now, as it has been explained to me, they are going to look through the system log and try to discover from the "errors" what is causing this to continue. It has been established twice there is nothing wrong with my computer. Everything is upgraded, etc.
So, we shall see. In the meantime, I will review the information you sent. Thanks again!
I will keep you informed!
Twyla McConnell
"Just when the caterpillar
thought its life was over
it turned into a butterfly"
From: Bill Hunt <[email protected]>
To: Twyla McConnell <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2011 7:37 PM
Subject: Titles Freezing Movie Clips in Premiere 9
Welcome to the forum.
Not sure that we can help more than Adobe T/S, but this http://forums.adobe.com/thread/792580?tstart=0 has proved very helpful, when others have experienced crashes or hangs.
The first half of the article is devoted to the main causes of crashes. Beyond that, the links provide many troubleshooting tips, and rather work up in "order of difficult,."before culminating in The Case of the Unexplained, that offers some in-depth MicroSoft tips and also tools.
Good luck, and that helps,
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I have Imovie running on my Mac book and when I add a title to a clip, the image when pauses (audio continues).
The other error that occurs is that when the title is put in place there is a jump in the audio and video like the clip has been cut and a few frames have been removed or some times added.
Ilife came free with my mac so I cant re install it. Also the new Imovie is not something I'm after. But if the free download comes with all the effects etc then I may consider geting the new Ilife 08.
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It may just be that you have insufficient disk space, or are storing your project on an external disk that is not formatted for Apple. It should be Mac OS extended or Mac OS extended (journaled).
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You can repair permissions through the Apple Utility App.
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Hey guys,
So I'm using Pr Elements 7 and I had this problem start a few days ago. Everything was fine, then I opened the project I had been working on and it says all of my titles are offline, like the ones you make in the program. I've never had that happen before. I try restarting to see if that fixes it, and the only thing it does is make some of my clips say they're offline too. Now I've had the "media offline" red screen before when I move something and PrE can't find it, but this isn't what's happening. Nothing has been moved and in the edit panel that lists all of the clips and titles, nothing is actually showing up with a red screen as it's picture. Usually when it goes offline, I click on the clip and a window pops up asking me where it's moved, but when I click on a clip it just opens it up in the playback window like nothing is wrong. I can drag and drop the clip from there into the timeline and it works fine, but the existing clips in the timeline still say that it's offline.
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Read the article, I'm 100% sure I haven't moved any of the files. It never pops up and asks me where a file is located, and I can still play the file from the side panel. I can also drag it from there into the timeline and it works fine. It's just some of the existing clips in the timeline that are showing up offline.
As for exporting, if you mean have I exported like the video as a whole including the titles as in saving a copy of the video to my desktop, yes I have, multiple times. But I've done that before in both this project and others and it hasn't effected anything. And if you mean something else by "exporting", then no I don't think I've done that because I haven't done anything I don't normally do when working on a project.
I also opened another project I'd been working on, added some titles, closed it, then reopened it, and those titles and all of the media show up fine. So I'm thinking it's just this one project. And normally I would just start over, but I've put a lot of work into this particular project and really would rather not have to start over.
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Hi I have a 30 second clip, for the first five seconds I want to add a title, then for the next five seconds a different title, etc. Sort of like subtitles as the clip runs along.
Is there anyway to do this? Once one title is dropped on the clip, it won't let me drag another on to the clip frustratingly!
Also....is there anyway of getting vids to play produced on imovie 06?

It's a little less than straightforward but not particularly complicated.
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Ric - If you have inserted transitions between clips, the title will not "take". You'll need to either remove the transition or split the clip (as described in my previous post). The transition can be added again after the title renders.
As you have probably noticed, when placing the title in the timeline, if you drag over the clip it will move to the right to allow insertion of the title. My last post wasn't clear about that - you don't have to drag to the exact division between clips (I had forgotten that the clip moved sideways when hovering OVER it).
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I didn't realize, until today, that the Timeline Index won't show any objects (eg titles), if they're inside compound clips on your timeline...
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Yes, though I'm looking for a single title (there's only one and I know it), in my video.
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And this is exactly what the Timeline Index is for, given it has a "Titles" tab.
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