Imovie 11 Advance Tools Issues

I cannot get access to advance tools in iMovie.
Just updated it today Version 10.0.06 and there is not an option to select Advance Tools in preferences.
Advance tools options do not appear in the contextual menu when I drag one video clip onto another.
I cannot use green/blue screen effects.
I do have an old iMac (2009) but that has not been an issue in the past.

I have the same question ... and nothing, so far has helped. Using iMovie 11 9.0.4. I use this software VERY infrequently and I have before does side-by-side movie clips and photo-within-movie clip so I KNOW it can be done with my software and hardware.
However, I cannot for the life of me get it to work. As far as I know, "advanced tools" are ON and I'm dragging one clip to the top of a longer clip until the green + appears ... yet when I drop the clip, it lands either BEFORE or AFTER the targeted clip rather than having the contextual menu pop up.
Same goes with trying to drag a still photo into a video clip. It's driving me batty!
What am I overlooking?

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Then iMovie is not behaving OK
Trash iMovie preferens file
or
Start a new User-Account and log into this
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I'm attempting to produce a short (1-2min) video with some green/blue screen or Picture in picture. According to both the Help files and David Pogue's The Missing Manual, I'm supposed to turn Advanced Tools on in the iMovie Preferences, select the clip videoed in front of the (blue) screen and drag it onto the clip that will become the background, at which time a contextual menu will drop down allowing me the select green or blue screen or PiP.
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Cancel that... after posting the request, I spotted a mention of the subject in the More Like This box* that answered my question. The clip needs to be dragged from the Events, not from the Project. Stated in the Help files... I must learn to read more carefully.
* It had failed to show up when I searched the Communities but I guess with 65000-odd discussions, things are getting a bit complex.

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