IMovie HD 6 - Cannot insert transitions between short clips

I am attempting to assemble a movie using several short (8-15 second) clips. When I attempt to insert transitions, I get the following message:
"You cannot apply a transition between very short clips. They must each be at least 3:49:16 long."
I assume they mean 3 min, 48 sec, 16 frames. I don't remember having this issue before.
Is this something wrong with my installation, or do you really need 4 minute clips?

No, your iMovie program is acting strangely. For some reason iMovie believes that you are trying to insert a transition of almost 4 minutes duration between two clips of 15 seconds duration. (I can't recall any transitions longer than 10 seconds.) So it is giving you a message that your clips need to be longer.
When iMovie starts acting strangely, a commonly done procedure is this: Shut down iMovie and trash the file com.apple.iMovie.plist located in User/Library/Preferences. iMovie will create a new file on relaunch. Also, do a simple permissions repair using the Utilities/Disk utility application on your Mac. Then launch iMovie and see if your transitions work.
If your transitions still don't work, make sure that your Quicktime is updated to current version, and do a permissions repair like above after updating.

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