Imovie export/import

I created a project in imovie last night for school, i stayed up all night editing it, finishing at 6am. When the film was exported imovie had shifted the audio half way through so that it did not match, resultly ruining the film. However when i played the film full screen out of imovie, everything was fine. I have changed how the audio is analyzed (detaching it, re-importing it) but it still shifts in the result export.
I tried to switch computers and use my laptop, so I copied the imovie file and put it on my laptop. However I can not import the file to my imovie on my laptop. That is the 1st question.
I then tried some more editing on the computer. imovie froze and my entire film was erased, the whole project. "luckily", i thought "I still have the file on my laptop," however it doesn't not import into imovie and so now I have 12 hours to finish my film and I have no way of retreving my files. HELP ME PLEASE

Have you got a Time Machine backup? Have you got Disk Warrior to run a disk directory check/repair?

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I have exactly the same issues
'Very visible in dark areas and peoples faces where the no. of colors are too low. Filesize is reduced too.'
In light you won't notice but the dark is just terrible.
Important: It has not to do with interlace. Interlacing is not the problem. It's the dark areas en people faces!
I thought I found the solution.
Wat I did was:
- Export as Quictime Apple Intermediate Codec
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(Also I set the compressor to 'other' and 'interlaced' and 'top field first')
But the strange thing is: When I do it on a small piece of footage. It works perfect. When I do it on a longer project: the footage is crappy again.
I worked a week on different home video stuff and it's not fun to see this decrease of quality.
I didn't missed a toppic where someone found the solution?
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My friend let me tell you something - I TOTALLY share your frustrations, and disgust with the poor results of Keyframe (within FCE).
I am not a software engineer, but my perseverance to try and try again, is far above average.
At the risk of getting on a soapbox, (and I can attest to my excellent equipment capability), please believe me, (like yourself), I've paid my dues trying to get Keyframing to work suitably with stills in FCE.
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the German nightshift again...
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My goal: To import some pictures into iMovie. Maby
add ken burns efects to them, add a bit of narration
and some music, edit everything and export.
The problem: Let say I use the following method: i
click Media tab, then i click photos, then i select
the photo, and in the Photo Settings click apply.
iMovie then imports the photo, puts it in the
timeline and then the dark red bar bellow apears (the
one that would means rendering). The problem is,
there is no light red getting over it (that would
indicate rendering in progress). It's the same if i
click and drag a photo into the clip browser (only
the dark red is displayed on the bottom of the
thumbnail). If i try to quit iMovie it warns me that
rendering is in progress.
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300x200px, 800x500px, 1500x1000px, 3000x2000px) or
what format (jpg, tiff, png).
I tried restarting the application and the sistem. I
created another user to try if anything changes. I
erased the preferences. I even tried copying the
whole application from frend's computer (the same
version and all). The dark red bar doesn't start to
fill red (i checked in the terminal how much
processor does it eat and it's on 7%, so it probablly
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