Copy and Paste Clips within iMovie

Using iMovie 11.  I have football games that I edit and bookmark.  I also save clips from each game for a season highlight video.  I can copy the clips from a game project and paste to the highlight project.  I am unable to paste clips to the highlight event.  I want to delete each game from the project library as I finish it, but don't want to delete the source video for the highlight project.  Thanks!

Jeff, when you copied and pasted your edits then those clips retained all previously applied settings, filters etc, including those distortions automatically applied by FCP that made your anamorphic clips display properly in the older non-anamorphic sequence .. what you need to do is to remove those distortions:
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That should do it ... although if you did any intentional distortions then those will have to be redone as they will be removed along with the automatic anamorphic distortion.
Cheers
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