Single Black Frame at end of Cross Dissolve

That happens sometimes.

Expand your time line, remove the transition, and trim off the black frame. You can move your cursor by toggling your left and right arrow keys until you hit the black frame. Then you can either split it off and delete it, or trim it back.

Did you ever find a solution for this? For me, the black frame is part of the transition, NOT part of the clip, so deleting the "black frame" as suggested is not an option.

thanks

Try trimming off a couple of frames from each of the clips on each side of the transition. Then reinsert the transition. I really doubt that the black frame is within the transition itself -- at least, I have never seen that. That fact that it doesn't appear in the cross dissolve transition used later in the video would indicate that the black frame is related to the clip itself rather than the transition. If that doesn't work, then switch to the Overlap transition, as I think that you alreaedy did, which gives almost the same effect.

I'm hosed if there isn't a solution to this problem. I'm 2/3 finished with a paid slideshow for a graduation party in two weeks. After weeks of working on this project, TONIGHT the single black frame began appearing in every single transition I try. (Except fade in and fade out, yuck).

I have used cross dissolve and overlap for the entire project. As of tonight, overlap shuts down imovie immediately, and the black frame of death is in every other transition I try.

PLEASE someone, is there a fix? You can't remove a single frame from a transition. The black frame is DEFINITELY IN THE TRANSITION, not the ken burns'd clip.

Thanks, I hope to get an answer... Tracy

I'm still having the same problem, but here is what I'm planning on doing if a solution doesn't present itself. I'm going to export the portions of the project to a QT movie, then re-import that self contained movie back into my project. THEN, I will delete frame of "black blip". I haven't tried it, but I'm thinking it will work.

rn

Hi snaildix - obviously something is corrupting your project! Is your project a complicated one with many crops, transitions, effects, text overlays, and/or audio extractions? Do you have very little hard drive space left? Give us an idea of how big and complex it is.

Because malfunctions and crashes usually indicate that iMovie is near to reaching the end of its tether. Remember, it is not a product for professional use, so we can't expect it to perform as such.

Have you tried deleting preferences and repairing permissions yet?

Sometimes permissions and preferences can get corrupted. Whenever iMovie starts acting funny, a common maintenance procedure is to do the following: Delete preferences by closing iMovie and trashing the file com.apple.iMovie.plist found in User (the House icon)/Library/Preferences. Then do a permissions repair using the Utilities/Disk Utility App on your Mac. Open the Disk Utilities window and select the Mac hard drive icon at the top of the side pane at the left. Then click on the Repair Permissions button. When you have repaired permissions and deleted preferences, restart your computer and launch iMovie. iMovie will replace the .plist file that you deleted. Be sure also that you have sufficient free disk space on your hard drive for iMovie to function correctly. 25GB often is recommended by users of this forum. After doing all of the above, relaunch iMovie and see whether you still have the problem.

I have:

repaired permisions
deleted plist files
ran disk utility - even from start up disk
did routine maintenance


I use iMovie frequently and am pretty good at trouble shooting, but have not found a solution for this one!

thanks
rn

You might try opening the project in a new account and see if that works.

Are you by any chance setting the transition duration for longer than the clip's length?

Hi all...

Catspaw ... Could my project be corrupted from the jpg files or the downloaded songs I'm using? They're all from iTunes. The jpg files were all created from scanned photos. The project is currently 4.85 GB in size, including 2 GB of trash which of course I can't empty until I'm finished due to the Ken Burns/emptying trash bug. It has about 150 images and three songs so far and is two-thirds done.
I am intrigued by the suggestion that perhaps I don't have enough memory on my HD, right now I have 8 GB available. I'm going to dump about 20 GB onto an external HD right now. Will keep you posted!
Thanks everyone for your continued interest.... Tracy

Could you by any chance have some 3rd party plug-ins or Quicktime plug-ins that may be conflicting? If so, you could remove these to another folder to temporarily disable them.

Is your Quicktime updated to current version?

As a last ditch measure, there is a program called Photo to Movie that you can get cheaply on the Apple software site. That program works well with iMovie and is reputed to have a better zoom and pan effect than Ken Burns effect.