Transitions in iMovie 5.0.2 not working

None of the transitions in iMovie 5.0.2 are working for me. I have a 45 minute project edited down from 2 hours, now I come to add the titles and transitions, and they don't work...
Titles on a black background are working fine. However, all transitions and title over clips are badly corrupting the clips. You can tell the picture is the same as the clip, but it looks like a TV that is badly tuned and without vertical sync (the picture is corrupt and scrolling upwards).
I have just noticed that my iMovie is NTSC, but my camera is PAL. Could this explain it...? But I don't really see how, since I can scroll all the 29 NTSC frames in each second just fine.
Has anyone come across this and found a way to make it work okay?

Hi Tony,
welcome to this forum
I'm afraid:
you should start your project from the beginning....
my guess: you imported your footage WHILE the demo was open in the timeline of iM, right? that is NTSC stuff; now, iMHD allows to import different video standards into one project, but that is not best practise, and can reuslt in very cheap quality of project....
choose New Project, in the settings choose "25" - less intuitive, that stands for PAL... which has 25fps (but who know that?) besides, 30 is NTSC....

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