Importing images from iPhoto into iMovie 10, green image

We are in a fine line were Apple can decide to solve our newly created by them problems or forget about us because we own 2 year old machines. So, my question comes back: Is there any place in Apple were we can fill an error bug and track if someone is trying to solve it?

I just discovered this yesterday using the new version of iMovie for the first time on my Mac mini. Very frustrating as I have a project for my wife's forthcoming 50th birthday party. Doubt Apple will resolve this in time for me to finish the project so will probably have to start all over again in iMovie 9 :(

I've noted (should any apple support people be reading this) that the images that are corrupted or green in iMovie are pixelated or corrupted in iPhoto when you zoom in. Anyone else notice the same problem? I'm the fore wondering whether the root cause is actually an image handling component from iPhoto. Although having said that, having imported all the photos into iMovie 9 the images look as expected.

Does anybody knows anything new from apple or the community about this problem? How long does it takes for Apple to release the first update to their apps normally?

I have a new MacBook Pro running all of the latest software and am having the same problems. I changed the size, smaller, and they worked after that!

So this didn't happen - and nobody from Apple has come on to confirm that they're working on a fix. It would be nice is someone officially employed by Apple would come on, acknowldege the error, let us know that they're working on a solution, and let us know when a resolution might be expected (even if it's just an estimate at this point).

10.9.1 was recently seeded to developers, I did notcie that one of the areas of improvement was gprahics drivers.

Will be curious if this update address's the problem as it seems to be related to graphics drivers.

Same issue for me for the last couple of weeks. Very frustrating. Thought it was a memory issue, OS issue, iMovie issue, etc and have spent hours on trying to fix it but it now appears that it happens to many people and is neither my fault nor my machine's.

This is an incredibly inefficient and detrimental support philosophy by Apple. Many have raised this issue here and on other threads but it just echoes without a word from Apple. This gives them the appearance of not caring and/or not listening. Someone at least acknowledge the issue and state that you're working on it.

Its this sort of arrogance and disinterest which tempts me to dabble in Windows again......sort it out Apple, that's what I pay the premium for....

I have on the phone with apple and working with engineers. I have got a great deal of help and it appears at this point it's and issue when the photos are imported to aperture. The best so we found for right now is to reimport the photos. That solved my problem. I have been getting feed back from the apple specialist weekly and hopefully a full fix will be coming soon.

@Unoone77 - I'm glad that it you were able to get help. However, your post leaves me with a couple of thoughts/questions:

1. Why does one have to call Apple directly to get help? You're at least the second person who's gotten help by calling Apple, and yet Apple hasn't take 10 seconds to see if there's a thread out there on this topic? Very disappointing. It's a more costly solution for Apple to update people on this issue one call at a time and it provides a worse customer experience overall.

2. If Apple is in contact with you weekly, can you please tell them that we would all feel better if they simply posted an acknowldgement of the issue on this thread and told us that they're working on a solution? We would all feel better if we heard directly from Apple.

3. If you were able to reimport your photos and it fixed your problem, why are you getting feedback from Apple weekly? If it fixed your problem then I'm very glad for you. However I've tried doing the same thing without success.

Hello everybody,

can confirm the same problem.

This is what I found in my console during the iPhoto accessing procedure out of iMovie.

"30.12.13 22:01:53,392 iMovie[1990]: *** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver initForReadingWithData:]: data is NULL"

I also get this one

"30.12.13 22:01:24,118 iMovie[1990]: *** OpenGL error 0x0506 (invalid framebuffer operation) in function "GL_CHECK_CURRENT_ERROR""

Does anybody have a workarround? I tried different workarrounds, like exporting from iPhoto to Desktop and dragging into iMovie (works only sometimes), tried different extensions (PNG, JPG), doesn't matter and doesn't work constantly.

Hello sashapup,

my photos were not made with a Nikon DLSR, but concerning the size, I tried what you wrote. I just took a screenshot (1MB) of one 5MB photo and drag it into iMovie. This is the only consistent way to work for me at the moment. Sad but true!

I came across this issue today, screwing around with it for some time before finding the issue has existed for at least the last couple of months. I have the latest update from Apple, but alas it has not been corrected.

The consistent workaround I found was to open each image, reduce its size (Preview...Tools...Adjust Size...Custom...selected 1920x1080...no point in making it more complicated than that), then re-imported it. No problem after that, but this is a royal pain in the rear to do over and over again.

Way to go, Apple, in solving the issue.

Also got the same issue.

I tried to get back a clean backup from Time Capsule: same issue.

Amazing silence of Apple since 2010.

Suggestion:

DO A NEGATIVE FEED BACK TO APPLE via iPhoto AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE, ALL OF US.

we can refer to this thread.

I personnally start it now.😠

I'm having the same problem and could not find a solution. Worse than that, I decided to remove the pictures in Green from the Project and what happened is that the program randomizedly chose new ones to be in Green. I am so frustrated and MAD about that.

Since I do not see any official Apple reply in this forum I'll Immediately follow the uggestion above!

DO A NEGATIVE FEED BACK TO APPLE via iPhoto + iMovie AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE.

I finally solved the problem.

for understanding, the issue was that iPhoto 11 turned normal pix into greenish ones, without any mean to adjust them.

The original pix in the folder Masters of the iPhoto library are not corrupted.

If they are re imported in the same Library/event, even with a brand new OSX/iPhoto, they turned greenish randomly.

the issue is a corruption of the LIBRARY/EVENT itself.

The solution has been to

1. re install OSX and iPhoto (maybe not necessary, but in my great disarray, I did it by precaution).
2. create a new library (i.e. with iphoto library manager), named "LIB"
3. copy the pix from the initial library Maters folder with the Finder into a new folder on the desktop (named for instance "toto"). For this you have to open the library by right click then "display the contents of the packet" (approx wording, my iPhoto is in French).
4. Open the new library"LIB" with iPhoto
5. import the pix from "toto", name the event, etc