Imovie 10.0.5 won't show preview and won't play

I just upgraded to iMovie 10.0.5 and have imported a bunch of pictures and 120fps videos into iPhoto to put into my movie. Here are the problems I'm having:
1) When I put the pictures (whose previews all show up when "iPhoto Library" is selected on the left menu) into the new event for my movie, they show up as blank, blue pictures/movies.
2) When I move one into the video itself, it won't playback, and still shows up as black/blank.
it's driving me crazy, and I spent $15 to update, does anyone have any idea why this is happening?
Thanks!

I had this problem to, all I did was close iMovie (Force quit) and reopened it if it doesn't work I don't know what to tell you

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