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Importing images from iPhoto into iMovie 10, green image

When importing some images from iPhoto into iMovie 10, some images turn solid green. Is it a bug or a problem with the images themselves?

OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 27, 2013 8:15 AM

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Oct 28, 2013 4:54 AM in response to fabriceburtin

The images I'm importing from iPhoto have all been taken by the same iPhone and mostly on the same day so the format of the image is not the issue.


One thing I have noticed is that if, in iPhoto, you edit that particular image (a bit of cropping and colour adjustment), it will then work fine. As this reduces the size (weight) of the images, I'm thinking that the bug might related to image size. But all in all, that's a bug that needs to be fixed by Apple.


Regarding the Kern Burns effect, you have to select an image in your project, click on "adjust" (top right), then select the Crop function. You will then see the ken burns option.

Oct 28, 2013 5:59 AM in response to fabriceburtin

Yes, format, size and source of image is not an issue in my case. 90% over the 300 pics were correctly imported but 10% are shown as solid green, even though you can bearly see the image in the very first 10 seconds right after the import by dragging the mouse over the pic. Then, you can't see it ever again. Very weird.


I even created a single event with one non-imported pic.... no luck. I have also exported the pic from Aperture to my desktop and then import it into iMovie from there..... no luck.


By the way, I have a MBA 2011 4 GB, 128 GB. Non other app open aside from iMovie, so I have 1.5 GB of RAM free. Over 128 GB in HDD, 100 are used.


Thanks for the responses

Oct 28, 2013 8:27 AM in response to fabriceburtin

Ok so I have found a workaround. Since iMovie was seeing the previews from aperture correctly, but not the full picture, I went back to aperture and did a minor edit on each of the pictures in question. Now if I reinsert the picture into my timeline the new version (with the minor edits) shows up fine. I hope this doesn't happen too often. This is a pain. The edit I did was to use the magic wand. I suspect it doesn't matter what you do.

Importing images from iPhoto into iMovie 10, green image

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