iMovie clips turn black

Hi,

There might be some corruption or rendering issue in the clips that turn black. Or possibly the problem is confined to this one project.

Try putting the black clips into a new project and see if the problem persists. If the clips still show black, re-render the black clips on your Mac with the free download Handbrake. As a test, convert one of the clips to H.264, Mp4/AAC that Handbrake will do by default. Do that even if the codec already is indicated to be Mp4/AAC. Re-rendering often cures issues.

 You can get Handbrake here:

 https://handbrake.fr/

 A simple way to do it is to open Handbrake and do a File/Open Source. Navigate to your video and choose it as the source from the resulting screen. Then do File/Start Encoding. Wait a couple of minutes for the conversion to

complete. Then save and import the converted clip into iPad iMovie. Now see if it plays normally.

-- Rich

On the Handbrake website (see the link I provided in my earlier response) you can download Handbrake for Windows.

--Rich

There you go. The problem appears to be project related. Also, you can download Handbrake for your windows machine from the Handbrake website. Use the link I posted in my earlier response.

-- Rich