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Video Thumbnails not showing in imovie. help!

Started Dec 22, 2020 | Discussions thread
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paul wassermann Senior Member • Posts: 2,276
Video Thumbnails not showing in imovie. help!

Just beginning to try and learn imovie and have run into a problem that wasn't there earlier in my experience.

When I import a clip to my media, it imports fine but the thumnail is just a blank screen.  If I run the curser over the clip, the image appears.  If I drag the clip to the lower processing timeline screen, the clip is there but again the image is missing.  When I move the curser over the clip, the image shows up in the upper right monitor screen but doesn't show up in the clip in the lower screen.  You can see that a previously uploaded clip has the video portion visible in the clip but the one to the right is a blank black screen even though the video is in there.

Here are a couple of screen shots to try and show what I mean.

Thanks to all who might help me undo this current glitch!

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