imovie 11 looks fine in project view but is corrupted when published

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imovie 11 looks fine in project view but is corrupted when published

I'm a very adept user of imovie and have quickly picked up imovie11. I have made several movies that all use the same title sequence.

When I publish them (I've tried youtube, itunes, media browser and mobile me) one of them posts just as I created it. The other two have seriously corrupt opening sequences (I have a transition, text/title screen and music in the opening sequence - not complicated).

The opening sequence is scrambled... a bunch of broken horizontal images... then plays the rest of the movie just fine. Help!

macbook pro, Mac OS X (10.6.5)

Posted on Nov 22, 2010 7:24 AM

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Nov 22, 2010 8:13 AM in response to cloudspotter

You can copy and paste clips between project, but not all the settings, etc.

To reuse a title sequence, I would suggest that you take the good project. Select it in the Project Library List. Then FILE/DUPLICATE PROJECT. Give the Duplicate a name and trim off everything but the opening sequence. You can then use this as a template when starting other projects.

If you need the sequence in an existing project, I would render the template you made above in Apple Intermediate Codec. You can then import this back into iMovie as an Event clip. Then you can use this in those existing movies.

If you are already doing it this way, let me know.

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Nov 22, 2010 11:31 AM in response to AppleMan1958

Thank you, I will try this. I also thought of a workaround... I used a keynote slide, copied the style I had in my project (text, color, etc) and exported it to my desktop as a movie with manual advance. I then imported it into a new event folder and brought the clip into the corrupted project. Added sound in the project so I could pull it through the transitions (vs embedding into the keynote slide). This ended the problem and helped me isolate it to the source clip. I had tried to use a clip from the trailer so my program would have consistent style elements. Clearly not a good idea unless I'm missing something.

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