importing photos all messed up

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importing photos all messed up

I am having major issues trying to import photos into iMovie. I tried importing via the import menu and dragging and dropping photos into the timeline.

I am basically trying to make a photo slide show with the Ken Burns effect. When I drag or import photos they show up in the timeline but when I try to watch my video preview all I get is a black screen. I tried adding a video clip first, then added a single photo and it worked. When I import more than one photo at a time the thumbnail preview in the timeline got all messed up and doesn't correspond with the pictures they belong to. I imported 12 pictures and when I preview my movie it just shows me a couple photos over and over not the 12 I imported. I have no clue what could possibly have caused this? Nor do I have any idea how to fix it? Creating new projects and quitting a restarting seem to have no effect.

I'm using iMovie 11 on my macbook pro running OSX lion.

Here are some screenshots:

Here are the JPG files I'm importing:

Here you can see that the thumbnail does not correspond with the image shown:

Same problem as above:

Macbook Pro i7, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Aug 3, 2011 2:33 PM

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Infinus Author

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Aug 4, 2011 1:27 AM in response to Infinus

Finally got home and managed to do some more testing. I erased and reinstalled iMovie running 9.0.2 it worked ok, upgraded and had the problem again. erased and reinstalled again, back on 9.0.2 it seems if I import photos one at a time it works but dragging multiple photos in creates the non matching thumbnail/duplicate pictures problem.

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abnospam

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Aug 9, 2011 3:27 PM in response to Infinus

Did you by chance use Migration Assistant from a computer with iMovie 9 to a new computer with iMovie 11?

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Infinus Author

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Aug 9, 2011 3:42 PM in response to abnospam

No I bought my laptop with iMovie 11 preinstalled.

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imonnett

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Aug 9, 2011 4:29 PM in response to Infinus

Try putting the photos in your iPhoto library first. Then the photos will appear at the bottom right hand side when you open imovie. Maybe your photos are to big, especially if you have a 12 mega pixel camera and on maximum setting.

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abnospam

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Aug 9, 2011 4:39 PM in response to imonnett

ok, I just had success. I was trying to insert all photos. Try this instead. Insert a title first with some text and a background. Then drag and drop the photos. Appears to have worked for me.

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Dec 24, 2012 5:50 AM in response to Infinus

I have exactly the same problem, have you solved it?

The photo I import is shown on the preview, but on the thumbnail there is always a different photo which i have not imported and is the same every time i try importing different photos. I have tried importing them into iPhoto first, and the whole adding text and background scenario and it hasn't worked. I too bought the laptop with iMovie '11 preinstalled.

Any more suggestions?!

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Dec 24, 2012 6:22 AM in response to MLylePérez

no hang on! It's fixed now! iMovie froze, closed and then i reopened it and the thumbnails were ok again!

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Dec 25, 2012 2:58 PM in response to MLylePérez

I am having the same problem.

I just finished a imovie project using photos that I was going to show at a party and the images are now all messed up!

The preview image is not the same as the correct thumbnail image that was inserted on the timeline using iPhoto. I have tried deleting and re-inserting, overwriting and ever other suggestion posted.

Nothing seems to work!

Very disappointed with iMovie and may not ever use again.

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