Imovie puts files in trash when reopening project

I have captured 2 dv-tapes, which results in 450+ clips. When the project is saved and opened again, imovie has put alle the clips of the second tape in the trash. Dropping them from the trash onto the timeline is no option, because they are all in a random order, and i don't know of any way to sort them (only manually, which will take me forever.
Is this happening because there are too much clips in this project?

Welcome to the iMovie Discussion.
Is the project saved on an external disk? If so, and if the disk doesn't use the Mac OS Extended disk format, what you see can occur.
iMovie requires the Mac OS Extended format, and when the disk uses another format iMovie is unable to reliably write/read to the disk. As a result, the file inside the project that keeps track of the clips can't be written properly to disk. Then, when the project re-opens, iMovie sees clips inside the project but doesn't know where they belong. It shows them in the trash so you can place them where they belong.
Trouble is, when you move them back to where they belong they may end up in the Trash again when you re-open the project.
So check out the disk format, and fix the problem if it exists. Here's more about it:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=4176921#4176921
Karl

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