Creating a highlight film

I trying to put together my teams highlight film and I'm running into a little problems. After downloading my clips (avi) into my selected theme and previewing the contents, it doesn't play continuous. What am I doing wrong?
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Coach LD

Coachcom is the program, the avi files had no problem when I placed it in iMovie. I'm not understanding why I'm not able to watch the entire highlight. It is only allowing me to see one clip at a time.

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