Adding Transition inbetween clips...clip is to short...must be more than 4m

I can't seem to ad transitions between clips anymore. Allways get the message that the clip is to short. ...must be more than 4 minutes !???
This wasn' t the case in iMovie 4 or 5 !!!
Can i change this ?
What's happening ?
grtz
Alain
iMac G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

It works !! Thank you
welcome Alain to the  board ..
a transition has to be shorter then the clip you try
to apply to...
in the settings of the transistion (upper right
corner, "preview") set with slider an approbiate
length...
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