Clips not saving

I have been working on a movie project and I saved my work many times. Before I closed the application I saved it again to my desktop just be on the safe side. When I opend Imovie to continue work on my project, the file could not open some of my clips. Most of my clips actually. A pop up message came up. Does anyone know why my clips were not saving? And is it possible to save a clip after its been cropped in a different location for future use?

I'm not clear on exactly what happened. What did the pop-up message say? What do you mean by "the file could not open some of your clips?" Were they not in the project at all, or would they just not play? Does this happen with other projects, or isolated to this one project? Have you updated or installed any software since saving your project? How much free disk space do you have? Have you noticed any strange happenings on non-iMovie projects? Are you running compatible versions of iLife software? If you can answer those questions you might get some more meaningful responses.
In any event, when iMovie acts weirdly it is oft recommended to do the following: 1) close iMovie and trash the file named com.apple.iMovie.plist located in User/Library/Preferences. iMovie will create a new file upon relaunch. 2) Do a permissions repair using the Disk Utility app on your Mac hard disk.
Sometimes permissions get out of whack, particularly if you have downloaded any new software or done any upgrading. Some people have complained of problems with Quicktime upgrades.
Make sure that you have enough free disk space for iMovie to operate, 10-15GB. If your project was initially located on an external hard disk, make sure that the external disk is formatted for Apple. Should be MAC OS Extended or MAC OS Extended (Journaled). (But if you reformat, store all of your data on that disk onto another disk, because reformatting will erase all the data on the disk.)
You might need some computer maintenance or a disk repair (done from your MAC CD startup disks.

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