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A strange thing has happened:
I have been working on a massive project, a friend‘s wedding; it’s taken two months to edit and I’m nearly finished.
But yesterday, while I was adding some final edits the program seemed to hang. I quit out, and now when I try to go back the main edit window doesn’t appear, it’s just empty.
The clips appear in the bottom window, and the preview window is fine, but the window where you assemble the clips is empty.
I have a feeling that a clip has got corrupt and is preventing the program from opening properly; but because I can’t get into the edit window I can’t try and take out the offending clip.
I’ve tried reinstalling iMovie and trashing the prefs file, but it still does the same thing.
I hope I’ve made it clear what the problem is - can anyone help. My only option at the moment is to reedit the whole wedding again; and I promised the couple it’d be ready by the weekend!
Help!!

Yes.
You can leave the first song where it is.
For the second song, highlight it and delete it. Then go back to the music browser again and drag your second song to your project. But this time, drag it to a clip near the end of your first song.
Now, you should have a green audio track running beneath your video clips, and you can adjust the start, end, or where it attaches.

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