Q: still photos imported to imovie change to solid green

Just want to add that I seem to have the same problem. I scanned a number of pghotos today as jpegs and put them in an iPhoto album. Then opened iMovie 10.0 for the first time. Tried to import the photos from iPhoto. They show-up in the lower iMovie window as a strip of frames, but the viewing sceen at the upper right is totally green regardless of where I put the progress cursor in the strip of frames shown in the lower half of the iMovie window. No solution, just what is apparently the same problem.

Now here's something interesting. The photos that showed-up as a green screen had been processed in Photoshop after scanning them and then resaved as jpegs. If I drop the original unpprocessed scanned jpeg photo in iMovie, it works OK. Or, if I resave the processed scanned jpeg as a tiff, it works OK. So it appears to be something about the processed file that causes this green screen problem. Go figure?

Sorry to keep rambling, but I have to retract what I said in my last post. The original jpegs did work OK once or twice, but now when I drop them in I get the solid green sceen again. The resaved tiffs seem to still work OK.

No solution I'm afraid, but I'm suffering the very same issue. I've tried resizing the jpg images but to no avail. This has been an issue for a number of weeks now and Apple seem very quiet on the matter.

I have been having the same problem with iMovie and the iPhoto library, where the imported pictures turn to solid green.

What I tried was to convert the photos to a video fileand import into iMovie - this is what I did:

- I opened up iPhoto and created a slideshow with the picture (or pictures) to be added to the iMovie project.

- Then I exported the slideshow to the desktop (or wherever you want) which creates a video file. I noticed it is      mpeg-4 format, and I do not see anywhere to change this format.

- Back in iMovie, I imported the new video into the project either by Import Media or dragging it in, I guess either      way works.

This seems to work for me so far, even though I'm still experimenting. But I am still disappointed in this, since it only happened since the upgrade to Mavericks and iMovie 10.

Thanks Mich

Solved the problem for me, although I agree it's not perfect!

Yeah, I would still love for Apple to resolve this problem.

No kidding.  This seems like an excessive amount of work when I used to be able to drag and drop (or import) from iPhoto.  Does iMovie not even support a sister product anymore??  So frustrating!

It used to be that easy Cheerit. Was frustrating for me also, especially since I have been looking forward to using iMovie more often. This bug is seriously turning me off of it.

I wrote a complaint to Apple, don't know how much will come out of that.

Appears to be a some size limitation. I reduced the size of my images and they seemed to work fine.

or maybe there's a conflit with an older imovie library, i got my problem solved with this method
- close iMovie
- delete your Library from the Movies directory (user folder\Movies)
when you open iMovie, automatically it will create a new library, then try to import your photos.

If anyone is still having trouble, you may want to try this...I was also having the green photo issue. Open your pictures in Iphoto, select the Picture(s) and click Edit>Crop>select DVD (4x3) option. After I did that, my photos were no longer green. Note: I am using the OS Maverix, and the latest version of IMovie. Hope this helps.

HEY...GOOD NEWS.

Apple addressed this issue,

And has an update in app store for this issue!!!

Thanks, I just found out too. Installing it now.

Hope it works!