Fix chopped clips

I am new to iMovie and started to import quite some miniDV tapes (±80) from my Sony DCR-PC9E to the iMovie library. I am looking for a solution to join clips in (or back into) the event library.
Background of my problem.
The tapes sometimes have some small hickups which do not really bother during playback from the camera, but after importing into iTunes each hickup will cause the clip to split and the few (1 to 4) hickup frames appear as a separate clip whith an incorrect date and time (they have the import date in stead of the recording date).
The ideal solution would be that iMovie is not chopping up my clips in case of a small hickup, but I have no idea of this can be forced. The alternative is that I 'fix' the clips after import for which I need to join all the hickup frames back into the clips again. I planned to add the clips and hickup clips to a project, but very short clips (1 or a few frames) cannot be added to a project for some reason.
The resulting questions therefore are:
1) Is it possible to prevent iMoview from chopping up frames during import in case of some short hickups in camera playback.
2) Is it possible to glue clips together in the event library?
3) As last resort, how can I add clips of only a few frames into a project? After which I may somehow generate a new output file which I import again in the event library.
Or maybe somebody has an alternative solution?

Oh!! Oh!! The media browser!! I tried that before, but it didn't make sense to me that it was in the media browser you referred the effect to. I usually use transitions and text effects. I did not know of these effects!! I think of them as overlays, but not enhancement effects as overlays like sharpening etc.
It did not help, the footage is too blurry. But thanks anyway! I learned something new!

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