Imovie project no longer letting me add transitions

i'm halfway through a video project, using various transitions throughout, however I can no longer drag transitions etc between the clips??
I have shutdown and restarted the mac, any ideas??
cheers

Hi
My ideas - for what they might be worth.
• iMovie got stupid - trash iMovie pref file and it will be well again
• or - Your Start-Up hard disk is filling UP - that too makes iMovie getting strange and behave BADLY
I never go less than 25Gb - now I read that may be 50Gb for people using HD-Video might also on the lower boarder.
Yours Bengt W

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