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Q: Images/stills turn black in iMovie since El Capitan upgrade

Dear all,

 

Since I've upgraded to El Capitan, I'm having issues with images/stills in iMovie. While they do show up correctly as thumbnails in the project overview, they can't be previewed or rendered, turning up completely black instead. Audio/text overlays are all OK, the images are just black, all of them.

 

I've tried various image format (PNG, JPG, TIFF). I've also tried renaming images to some unique name (as suggested somewhere).

 

Older iMovie projects which I made before El Capitan, that used to be OK, now have the same problem. I can't include any stills.

 

The issue also occurs when creating a freeze frame ("Add Freeze Frame"): the freeze frame also becomes black when previewing / exporting.

 

My platforms:

 

OS X: El Capitan 10.11

iMovie: 8.0.6. (821)

 

Any help would be appreciated!

iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11), iMovie 8.0.6

Posted on Oct 9, 2015 3:04 AM

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  • by DeborahLevy,

    DeborahLevy DeborahLevy Jan 19, 2016 2:48 PM in response to vonmarco
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    Jan 19, 2016 2:48 PM in response to vonmarco

    THIS is the solution that worked for me today - Macbook with El Capitan and iMovie 10.1:

     

    " MY SOLUTION:

    Open the desired still frames in Preview and goto TOOLS > Resize > "Fit Into" > 1024x768 . Save.

     

    And now I can drag and drop the stills into my video. It's worked on all that I've tried and now I can continue to make videos once again.

     

    El Capitan, Mid-2010 MBP, Imovie 10.1"

  • by GeeD,

    GeeD GeeD Jan 19, 2016 3:45 PM in response to DeborahLevy
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    Jan 19, 2016 3:45 PM in response to DeborahLevy

    To everyone.....

     

    iMovie version 10.1.1 has just been released.  Resolves still images display problem:

     

    Screen Shot 2016-01-20 at 00.44.23.png

    Have not tested yet.

     

    Geoff.

  • by GeeD,

    GeeD GeeD Jan 19, 2016 4:30 PM in response to GeeD
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    Jan 19, 2016 4:30 PM in response to GeeD

    Installed 10.1.1 on my MacBookPro 2007.  Photo DSC00796.jpg from Rich Rydalch now displays fine BUT photo IMG_2142 from Jan Maschbaer shows black all the time (previously displayed as thumbnail in event but blacked out when selected or put in timeline).

    Still running El Capitan 10.11.2.  Will try again after update to El Capitan 10.11.3.

     

    Geoff.

  • by vonmarco,

    vonmarco vonmarco Jan 19, 2016 5:24 PM in response to GeeD
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    Jan 19, 2016 5:24 PM in response to GeeD

    Just updated to 10.1.1 and it resolved the problem.  HOWEVER, for projects already started and photos already imported, I found I had to delete them and start all over.  If I used the previously imported photos, they were still black.  If I imported them again for a new project, they were OK.

  • by GeeD,

    GeeD GeeD Jan 20, 2016 3:01 AM in response to vonmarco
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    Jan 20, 2016 3:01 AM in response to vonmarco

    Yes in my previous post the versions already imported in 10.1 were still black.  I had to delete and reimport to see a change.

     

    Now I tried creating a new project and dragged and dropped stills into the timeline.  Same results.  DSC00796.jpg  OK.   IMG_2142 shows black.   IMG_2142 .png and .tif versions also don't work but .pdf version does.   I am now running OS 10.11.3.

     

    Geoff.

  • by otsoliloste,

    otsoliloste otsoliloste Jan 20, 2016 4:08 AM in response to GeeD
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    Jan 20, 2016 4:08 AM in response to GeeD

    "With imovie 9 and earlier the only successful workaround I have seen reported is to convert stills to video clips."

     

    How do you do that??? A still from a video clip, simple, but in reverse...

  • by karenkrn,

    karenkrn karenkrn Jan 20, 2016 6:29 AM in response to GeeD
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    Jan 20, 2016 6:29 AM in response to GeeD

    I just did a quick test with two large images, and it looks like it is fixed- at least for me!

  • by GeeD,

    GeeD GeeD Jan 21, 2016 6:45 AM in response to otsoliloste
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    Jan 21, 2016 6:45 AM in response to otsoliloste

    The link is:      Link to this post     

    but the poster (Lnkout) used an earlier OS version to export a video from the still then reimported that into iMovie 9 under El Capitan.

     

    I think one really has to upgrade to iMovie 10.1.1 to work properly under El Capitan.  10.1.1 was released yesterday and seems to fix most of the remaining bugs but iMovie 9 is obsolete since 2013 and I would not expect any updates.

     

    Geoff.

  • by James Cude,

    James Cude James Cude Jan 22, 2016 10:50 AM in response to GeeD
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    Jan 22, 2016 10:50 AM in response to GeeD

    looks like an official support document was also released with 10.1.1 addressing the issues with still images... If still images are solid green or black in the iMovie Viewer - Apple Support

  • by GeeD,

    GeeD GeeD Jan 22, 2016 2:37 PM in response to Maschbaer
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    Jan 22, 2016 2:37 PM in response to Maschbaer

    Jan Maschbaer:   Do your photos now work in iMovie 10.1.1 with AMD Radeon HD 6490M graphics selected?

     

    James Cude:   Thanks for the link to today's Apple article on the problem.

     

    Geoff.

  • by LornaTag,

    LornaTag LornaTag Jan 24, 2016 6:50 PM in response to d_bar
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    Jan 24, 2016 6:50 PM in response to d_bar

    Has anyone received a solution to this problem?  I'm having the same issue...

  • by jmsuvi,

    jmsuvi jmsuvi Jan 24, 2016 11:30 PM in response to James Cude
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    Jan 24, 2016 11:30 PM in response to James Cude

    Good morning,

     

    now, with iMovie 10.1.1 I have resolved the problem with the black pictures in a video.


    My problem now is that in an imported project of iMovie 9 (it is in 16:9) the pictures ar narrow, but I look for information in another foro.


    Thanks.

     

  • by scottfrommelbourne,

    scottfrommelbourne scottfrommelbourne Feb 3, 2016 2:56 AM in response to James Cude
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    Feb 3, 2016 2:56 AM in response to James Cude

    James - We updated to 10.1.1 and it seems that our problem is finally resolved.

    Thanks to all who pressured Apple to work through the issues and find a resolution.

     

    Good work too GeeD you're like a dog with a bone...

    Cheers

    Scott

  • by GeeD,

    GeeD GeeD Feb 3, 2016 3:28 PM in response to scottfrommelbourne
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    Feb 3, 2016 3:28 PM in response to scottfrommelbourne

    Woof woof!

     

    Geoff.

  • by berryday38,

    berryday38 berryday38 Feb 7, 2016 5:04 PM in response to GeeD
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    Feb 7, 2016 5:04 PM in response to GeeD

    Been thinking about updating to El Capitan.  Currently have iMAC 27" purchased Jan 2014 using OS 10.9.5 and Graphic Card NVIDIA Ge Force GTX 775M.  I have been using iMovie 8.0.6 for a long time as I am able to create movies (reunions, family) with leader trailer and burned to DVD, not sent to the cloud.  Most of videos consist of photos which are mostly sized to 1540x1100.   I have 3 videos in process each over 30 minutes long, so far.  I see iMovie 10 has been updated and working in most cases relative to the "black photos" but I'm concerned about doing the update to iMovie 10 on the movies in process.  Besides I have lots of old movies generated by iMovie that I sometimes need to access.    Do I dare update my iMAC to El Capitan?

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