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Hello,
Here is one for the iMovie experts then...
I've edited a 30 minute movie together of footage from my hols. Whilst everything initially worked fine and exported OK, now when I'm scrubbing through the clips, I get some that either show no video and no audio (I just get black, or the auto transitions pause halfway through) or... if I reboot sometimes I get the audio but not the video... Same happens when I export it, regardless of format chosen.
It's driving me proper up the wall.
The source video was shot on a Kodak Zi8, it's 720p AVCHD imported at 'Full' settings. It get's optimised when imported, and the intermediate files all play fine (indeed, if I scrub through them in the event library the sound and video is there!) so I'm rather confused! I am using the image stabilisation quite a lot, but I'm not changing the speed of any of the clips.
I've tried clearing the cache, thumbnails, deleting the preferences, re-importing the source. Nothing seems to make a difference. Which makes me think I've hit a bug, or I'm doing something silly...
Any suggestions?
Steve

OK, I've not figured out what went wrong.. exactly but I do have my suspicions...
I've fixed it by replacing any video that wasn't playing by re-importing the original source video. This took me quite a long time...!
The only thing I remember doing that may have caused issues, is running the 'Space Saver' option to delete unused clips. Now... I'm not saying this was the cause, but if you're still tweaking and tidying up, unless you're really low on drive space, I suspect leaving this option be is a good idea. Ditto goes for the consolidate option, I ran that afterwards, again it might well be blame free, but one of these two options did something bad...!
I've now got a video I'm happy with, and believe me, Time Machine is backing up my drive as I speak. Hopefully no-one else has this same hiccup, but veer away from any Space Saver, or Consolidate till you're completely done, and hopefully you won't share the same fate as me...
And if anyone at Apple is reading... AVCHD DVD export would be a lovely feature for an update on iMovie. HD playback on any Blu-ray player, but burnt to an ordinary DVD-R... Make it happen please, then I can retire my PC for good :P
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