IBooks Author changed placed video size on it's own. Anyone else have this happen?

I'm creating a rather large ebook with iBooks Author (2.1.1) on Mac OS 10.9.2 (mavericks) . Currently over 350 pages typset. Was final proofing and ran into a font conflict over the weekend (Palatino was substituting), which miraculously resolved itself when I ran typical Mac diagnostics (so maybe a font got corrupted or something). So I was celebrating my victory when I noticed that randomly, a number of placed videos had changed size
I noticed because I purposefully set all video preview images at 285x214. I've found at least six that changed to 200 x 150 (which possibly is the default when you create a new video).
I just find it curious that this would happen for the first time, after I've been working on this book since last November (so about 6 months)
I did upgrade to Mavericks April 15th. But I was working on the book last Saturday and these issues did not show up. Took Sunday off. Then mid-day Monday, I started noticing the font issue. Then this morning noticed the resized videos.
This is what it changed it to:
This is how i originally designed it:
Of course, the change in size made the text reflow throughout the chapter. So now I'm going back page by page from the beginning to see if this annomoly only happened in this chapter or throughout the book. It didn't affect every placed video — only some.

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