IMovie 08 (v506) install ruined a movie project already completed

Question

Every other clip (as 1, 3, 5, ...) is shifted down and to the right about half a screen, leaving a white rectangle where the clip should be shown. This movie project was completed about 2 weeks ago and was working fine. I just pulled it up after the v506 version upgrade and it's worthless now.

Answer 1

Sorry for the delay in replying. The easiest way to copy the clips is just to click inside the window of your current project (on one of the clips), then press command-A to select all, then command-c to copy. Then create (or go to, if already created) your new project, click inside the window, press command-v to paste all of your copied clips.
Or you can duplicate a project (in essence making a copy of the whole thing, titles and all), by right clicking on the name of the project, and selecting duplicate.
Hope that clarifies - easier to do than to explain.
Example: I had a situation where I had 30 minutes of old home movie clips that I wanted to divide up into three parts for posting on YouTube. So I used the duplicating command to make two more entire copies of the whole thing. Then I took copy A, selected and deleted the last 20 minutes worth of clips, too copy B, deleted the all but the middle 10 minutes, and then copy C and deleted the first 20 minutes.
Seems kind of a cumbersome way of doing it, but it works.
Good luck, and I hope you pick up that book
ps
Two other good organizational tools - you can mark footage with keywords or use the Favorite Tool.