IMovie clips cant be cut because whole project is trashed

I have had a fair amount of experience with iMovie but now when I import from analog video 8 using Sony DCR TRV 460 that creates digital output, the iMovie project seems ok. Then when I try to cut clips the whole project gets trashed. If I get info" on a clip, it has the same size as the whole project. Even clips split at video head are the same. I have no idea what to do.
Thanks
Anthony [email protected]

...but when I edit & trash any one clip, the whole lot of dubdivided clips go down with it
Something sounds profoundly wrong with the project. If it were mine, here's what I would try:
1. Repair permissions. Maybe something is preventing iMovie from working with the project as it should.
2. After splitting the clips, Select All (to select all the clips), Copy, create a new project, and Paste. iMovie should duplicate that large source file to the new project and place all the clips on the Timeline. Be sure to Copy and Paste all the clips together, otherwise iMovie will duplicate that large source file AGAIN the second time you Paste. If the new project behaves as it should, problem solved.
3. Export the project to a Full Quality movie, then import that movie to a new iMovie project. If there's a problem with the original imported movie, that might fix it.
4. Create a new user and try working in iMovie as that user. If there's a conflict with other software -- or a bad third-party plug-in-- that should reveal it. Everything should work okay because that software isn't running.
Otherwise, I think I'd start over with the project. (Which may not help, unfortunately.) I wouldn't want to continue to invest lots of time editing this project only to have it all be wasted when even more major problems occur. Right now, this project is too fragile to rely on.
Karl

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