still photos imported to imovie change to solid green

Good point. I don't know how to find that either. And it's still doing the green thing. To videos too now (it used to be just photos). Really annoying. I do not see one thing that was "upgraded" that is, improved, by this new version. It is just worse. I wish I had the prior version.

I'm using 10.0.2; the green thingy occurs on some videos & some photos imported from iPhoto. What I did was play around with the editing tools in the top right hand window pane, as follows: when this first happened I found that by adjusting the brightness slider to the left made the photo appear - how weird. Thinking this was solution, however then photos I'd made re-appear then went back to being 'green'. I then played around with the 'cropping' ... fiddled around with the 'ken burns' thingy; some I used 'fit'. I'v wasted so much time on this thanks to apple's software developers, I'm not impressed - especially because they also removed the chapter markers facility + the direct sharing interface with iDVD that has caused me a lot of extra time.

The source of my data are my own input from a Panasonic camera i.e. a proper device 😉 and I'm beginning to conclude that only the vids/pics causing the issue were those sent to me via email which had been taken on mobile phones. Just another angle on this issue??

I've been having this problem for 2 days and can't fix it...I've tried the 4x3 DVD formatting, I've tried converting to .tiff files (which are 10 times larger than JPEGs), I've tried the brightness slider, I've looked up a fix on in the App Store, and I'm running the latest version of iMovie, I've updated all other relevant software and the operating system, I've imported photos from iPhoto and from non-iPhoto files...none of it makes a bit of difference. I'm on a very time-constrained project for a group of friends, and this is TERRIBLE. There is no excuse for Apple putting out a piece of crap like this. This is supposed to be their flagship "even an idiot can look like a pro" product, and it is a buggy, stinking mess.

I didn't have this problem with the prior version of iMovie, which seemed to work better at a lot of levels, and which didn't have any problem at all importing photos.

I have no idea who to contact at Apple, or how to fix this.

Who at Apple can make this problem go away, and let us know about how to fix it?

I've been making a Mothers day movie for SEVEN years now without a problem and now apple decides to screw it up for me with iMovie. This is not fixed and should fixed. Please help!

Hello to everyone. I might have found the fix for this "green screen after a picture was imported into iMovie". Actually all the credit goes to my girlfriend.

Try this:

• Delete the imported pictures in iMovie (the ones that show you a green screen)
• Go back to the original files and simply rename them (what she did was adding a "0" at the end of each file name just before the ".jpg")
• Re-import them in iMovie
• and voilà !

Enjoy your movies!

I have been experiencing this problem and trying to fix it caused me to lose days of work on a video (I don't see why they got rid of the save feature). I didn't try the previously stated fix because it seems complicated but I found a very simple fix of my own. By right clicking on a photo that is affected by the green screen bug you can open it in finder and drag it straight into the project. Doing so fixes the issue. This problem was so irritating I felt like I needed to share this fix.

I have iMovie'11 also '13, but personally I prefer to work in '11. Well, I do sometimes have a problem with a photo importing, which is not showing the photo on the monitor screen (black), or... shows some complete other photo from the already filled imports.

What I do? I RE-SAVE the picture in Photoshop or save it as another file, like PNG. Put it agin in iPhoto and re-import in iMovie Wonders! Problem solved! Please try this... hope it works!!!

I, too, found that re-saving the green file with another file name helped. I didn't change the format, I just added a letter onto the file name. I found no rhyme or reason as to which files would be green in iMovie... However, after loads of experimentation, I finally found that if I dragged and dropped that file from iPhoto onto my desktop, then renamed it (ie: changed it from IMG_123.JPG to IMG_123a.JPG ,) then I could drag it into iMovie. (I put it directly into the movie I was working on in the location I wanted.)

I'm using MacBook Pro, late 2011, working with OS X 10.9.4

Hope this helps anyone who might still need it.

I've got a fresh system on OS X 10.10.2 with iMovie 10.0.6. Got the green screen for the first time today on photos from a Sony camera that were imported to the drive automatically with Dropbox. Then I drag and dropped as usual into iMovie. I think it might be something with the file names. So any photos imported through Dropbox has long filenames with date and time. But if I used Image Capture to import the photo it has the filename of the camera drive (DSC07219.jpg). So the short filename worked fine.

But I also noticed that any picture works fine first, but after a few seconds when iMovie has rendered the photo into whatever it works with to preview it, it becomes green.

I am having the same problem!

It seems to happen pretty randomly. I tried renaming the files but come on this is an insane job when the projet is big.

It seems like the problem is very very old I am wondering why Apple is not fixing this once and for all

Same issues.. Apple lets see a fix.. from history on this thread the problem is existing for over an year.?

To all posters....

There must be some rare* combination of circumstances which leads to this strange behaviour (* since the vast majority of people including myself have never experienced it). Apple claimed to have solved it in version 10.0.2 but evidently it still occurs. It has even been reported in FCP.

Do green clips always show as green in the project timeline as well as in the event pane?

Has anyone tried sharing a movie containing one or more of these green clips?

In the shared movie do the previously green clips still show as green or are they normal?

Geoff.

Annoyingly this problem is still present in 10.0.9 and has just cost me 2 hours using the workarounds to fix my content.

Not all images from the same camera source are problematic, it tends to have small patches of files that are sequential that it struggles with. The naming convention is the same amongst files that work and those that green screen.

IMG_4126.JPG - green

IMG_4127.JPG - green

IMG_4128.JPG - green

IMG_4129.JPG - green

IMG_4130.JPG - green

IMG_4131.JPG - green

IMG_4132.JPG - OK

IMG_4133.JPG - OK

IMG_4134.JPG - green

IMG_4135.JPG - green

IMG_4136.JPG - OK

IMG_4137.JPG - OK

In my case the only files that created green screens were 3648 x 2736, however not all the files at this resolution caused a problem. All photos were from a Canon 1000HS with standard settings.

It is not file contents that is causing the problem, if you rename the file and reimport then it is happy. If you import the same file without renaming it gives the green screen in playback and is a regrettable issue. In all my problem files it created a preview image for iMovie to use but could not playback the content.

C'mon Apple, this error has been present for too long and this is frankly a joke now. Apple is meant to offer the best video editing experiences!!!

What happens if you create a new library and try importing the problem photos into a new event there? (see vmartin post earlier in this thread)

Geoff.

for whatever reason....this solution works!!! Thanks for posting!!