Clips become blurry in iMovie editing

I am working on an iMovie '09 (version 8.0.6) project that uses .mov files created with a screen recording application and trimmed with QuickTime.  I have imported all these files in their full, original size, and they all looked great in the editing process when I would preview the movie full screen.  I opened iMovie a week later, though, and some, but not all, of the clips now appear blurry when I preview the movie.  Nevertheless, when I find the imported .mov files in the project library folder and open them with QuickTime, the clips still look great.
I cannot figure out what is causing this annoyance (since I cannot detect any other differences between the blurry and clear clips), let alone how to fix it.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreaciated.  Thanks!

I dont like to keep aperture on my system drive because it is getting so big, and I would be using close to 75% of the drive space (never a good move in my book)
You might consider to keep your library on your MBP, but relocate those master image files to an external drive, that you will not be needing in the near future (but such a "mixed-masters" scheme - some referenced - some not- will require you to be well organized and to keep track of your storage scheme).
I keep only my most recent projects mananged, and all older projects are referenced to my media drive.
On the front of self contained movies, I dont think aperture can make the distinction can it?  For reference they are just files from a DSLR, which have still and movies.
I have not yet explored that properly (I never tried AVI), but I found that Aperture just imports any movie - self contained or not - into the library, and as long as the referenced video clip was on the same disk it worked.

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