D800 Timelapse Problem in Aperture

I just shot my first in camera timelapses using a D800. I imported them into Aperture 3.4.3 and everything was fine. I even exported one with no problems.
Then I backuped to my vault, and when it was finished, all my timelapses and a ver of the videos (but not all of them) shot tonight had shrunk! Now they're only 84x47 pixels!
I tried closing and opening Aperture, zooming and unzooming, full screen... nothing. Has anyone else had this problem?

How did you import, NEil? Referenced or managed? Are your most recently imported images still connected to the original master files, or are the masters marked as offline?
Regards
Léonie

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Message was edited by: Terry Mosher

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