imovie hd 6.0.3

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jteem

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Hi, I upgraded to imovie 08 last year and have not been able to learn how to use it. As I still have imovie hd, I opened a new project in the old imovie hd and imported some photos and movies (.mov) files. When the movies and photos came in, each thumbnail is shaded in green. I cannot see through this green shading to the photos or movies at all. Even when I click on the thumbnail of either a photo or movie it just comes up as a large green square, however when I 'play' the movie file from the clip viewer I can see the contents of the movie. As soon as I stop playing it, the clip goes back to having the green shading over the top. Have you heard of this before and is there anything I can try to fix it. I have looked in the forum but cannot see anything specific to this problem. Thanks, jteem.
 
jteem said:
Hi, I upgraded to imovie 08 last year and have not been able to learn how to use it. As I still have imovie hd, I opened a new project in the old imovie hd and imported some photos and movies (.mov) files. When the movies and photos came in, each thumbnail is shaded in green. I cannot see through this green shading to the photos or movies at all. Even when I click on the thumbnail of either a photo or movie it just comes up as a large green square, however when I 'play' the movie file from the clip viewer I can see the contents of the movie. As soon as I stop playing it, the clip goes back to having the green shading over the top. Have you heard of this before and is there anything I can try to fix it. I have looked in the forum but cannot see anything specific to this problem. Thanks, jteem.
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Do either of you have EyeTV installed?

I had this exact problem with a couple of movie thumbnails too. IFRC it has something to do with the EyeTV MPEG Support.component which you'll find at:

MacintoshHD ~> Library ~> QuickTime​

I deleted this component (it will be recreated next time you launch EyeTV) and my green thumbnails were restored to there proper state.

The only problem is that the next time you launch EyeTV those pesky thumbnails will go all green again.

That was my experience anyway.

So to summarise, you *can* restore your thumbnails but only temporarily.
 
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