IMovie 11 Duration of photos and transitions

Did my first iMovie project for a very popular Club in Hollywood. Wow. I simply can not believe the bugs in this APP. The transitions are a nightmare! I barely got through the project. It was not 100% what I wanted but...

I could always set the transitions before to around 3 seconds for different transitions that would look much better when they were slower (between film clips). Now, that's a no-can-do.

This should really be resolved. The old version of iMovie had no issues with this. Now, the transitions are much, much too quick.

I've just completed my third compilation of still photos and videos in iMovie 11 (the latest one being 30 minutes long) and am still frustrated with the transitioning process but have found a workaround that helps to mitigate the problem.

First, I make sure transition setting is "All-Maintain Clip Range" rather than "Half-Maintain Project Duration."

Next, especially if I'm using a soundtrack, I find the transitions to be more finicky so I often will build the stills/vid clips with transitions first then add the sound track at the end. And I always make sure the sound track is not "pinned" since this also seems to create more problems. Then I go back and nudge stills/transitions/video clips to be timed to the soundtrack.

If the transitions and stills are being particularly stubborn' I will place a "title" block at the end of the compilation and set its duration to anywhere from 3 to 5 minutes. This lengthens the overall time of the piece so that the transitions aren't so stingy with allowing the length of transitions I'd like. The end "title" block doesn't contain text and is just a plain black screen.

These are my little tricks that seem to work for me. Hope I've explained them clearly enough!

Okay so I did the Maverick update. Where are the transition settings now?

-Chelsea

I've found if you cannot get the transition to properly display then there may be music or sound running through the duration of the transition which iMovie suprisingly doesnt allow

Fortunately I kept a copy of iMovie 8.0.6. I would still use it (and not the hideously complicated iMovie 10.0.9) but my iMovie 8.0.6 got a Quicktime stuff-up I couldn't fix. BUT the my iMovie 8.0.6 has an Inspector button that enables me to set a duration (in seconds) to a picture. I export the clip as a M4v movie thus by-passing the Quicktime (.mov) stuff-up. I keep both iMovie versions running on my Mac's Desktop - the 8.0.9 version for adding duration to a picture (that I import to the 10.0.9 version) for editing and publishing on my homepage at: www.radiograham.info