Imovie Clip Length

I am importing VHS to IMovie through Pryo A/V. The VHS tape is 1 hr. Every 19:54.06 minutes IMovie 5 stops. I have to manually start again. This happens everytime not just randon. Preferences are Import: Clips Pane, Filter Audio,Atuo DV Pillarbox. I don't remember that happening in IMovie 4.

That's typical if you have a PC-formatted hard drive, which has a 4GB file size limit.
iMovie: How to Save Projects to Another Hard Disk
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93296
See "Important Considerations" at the bottom.
Disk Utility Help: Erasing a disk or volume
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=DiskUtility/10.5/en/duh1009.html
In step 4, DO choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
WARNING: All your currect files will be erased.

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Welcome to the forum, Myrah.
You got it just about right; you're not missing something. There's a bug in themes that causes a clip placed in a Drop Zone to play from the beginning of the clip's FILE, not the beginning of the clip.
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It sounds like you've got a somewhat complicated issue.
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.. There seems to be a default imported clip length of just under 20 minutes.
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If you take ten frames from the end of clip one, and ten frames from the beginning of clip two, that transition takes 20 frames.
No, you take the last 10 frames from clip one and play at the same time as the first 10 frames of clip two. At the beginning of the 10 frame transition you can see only clip 1 and at the end only clip 2.
Logically you should then reduce clip one by 10 frames, and clip 2 by 10 frames, leaving the project duration the same.
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In the example I started with, I introduced a 10-frame transition and it reduced both clips by 10 frames, reducing the duration of the project.
Yes, that's how most transitions works.
But it shouldn't reduce the duration of the project by inserting a transition, should it?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DV#Applicationsoftwaresupport
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