Can you repair iM projects in anyway?

I copied clips from one project into another.
Now both projects run very poorly.
When the project is finaly loaded,I get ,with everything I do, the spinning beachball,sometimes for minutes.
Making a small change in a project takes a lot of patience.
When starting playback first comes the spinning beachball,then it starts for maybe two seconds then stops ;beachball etc.etc.
For my iMovie projects I use a LaCie BigDisk 400gb tripple interface.
Please help
Jacqo

Hi,sorry for my late response.
The external hd is formatted for Mac.
Is there a way to move the project to another external hd instead of copying,or can you only copy files and not move them?
There is also another problem with the hd.When it is connected with firewire iMovie says that there's no camera connected.
When the hd is connected with usb2 iM does see the camera,but only imports a second or two and than quits.
As soon as I disconnect the hd there's no problem.
Because of all that I'm going to look for another hd,but I don't know wich is best .Certainly not LaCie for me.

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