IMovie 11 Preview Pane greyed out

It's preventing playback preview and hence rendering the software useless.  Seen other threads alluding to similar situation but no solution.  Can anyone help?
It happened following a few hours of editing, but I wasn't doing anything out of the ordinary.  iMovie froze and I had to restart my MacBook Pro.  Upon restarting I couldn't open the project I had been working on, although can if I change the filename each time.  Even if I do this, I cannot preview it either in the preview pane or full screen.  Additionally I cannot export what I had done, nor edit it in any way.
Sadly, the project I was working on isn't the only one affected.  An older completed project exhibits the exact same problems.  One or two completed ones will still play in full screen, though the preview pane problem persists in every project.  Most frustratingly this includes new projects, meaning I now cannot use the software for editing at all.  Clips not yet in a project will play in the preview pane, but as soon as they are dragged to the project can't be previewed.  
Any ideas/suggestions extremely welcome.
Thanks

Also forgot to add, when importing my videos into iMovie, I moved them, not copied, because I was trying to save space on my Mac.

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