Help with Basics! Dragging and dropping clips

Good Morning! I've been frustrating myself for weeks just trying to get started. I've uploaded all my video clips through a firewire connection and they look fine. However, when I simply want to drag and drop a clip into the timeline it doesn't work. I have tried it on both the clip and the timeline viewer and have tried cropped and uncroppd videos clips. HELP! I thought this was the easy part. I even have a book, video and online help, but everything says simply "drag and drop clip" Any help is welcome. Thanks! Quail

Hi Matthew:
Maybe he could try deleting the iMovie preference files? Seems to fix some of the strangest of problems at times-do you agree?
Quail:
Try deleting the imovie preference file. Locate a file named com.apple.imovie.plist and get rid of it. Then empty the trash, run a permissions repair with disk utility and restart. That should do it. The files you need to delete are found in:
/Users/YourName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.imovie.plist
Sue

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---------------------- Forwarded by Peggy Lynn Adrian/AM/LLY on 02/03/98 01:33
PM ---------------------------
"Stokesbary, Michael" <[email protected]> on 02/03/98 12:19:52 PM
Please respond to "Stokesbary, Michael" <[email protected]>
To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
cc:
Subject: Problems with ListViews Drag and Drop
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