IMovie shows video but plays still image!

Just been editing a 20 min project and at one point it has a short video clip followed, after a transition, by another short clip then after a transition by still images.
All looks OK in the project window, but when I skim or play the sequence the second video clip content is ignored and replaced by the content of the still image for the full length of the video clip.
I've deleted these three elements and started again, even reimporting video from the camera, but no change. If I delete just the still image, the problem continues with IMovie playing the next still image instead of the video.
Anyone seen and fixed this?
David

This happened to me a while ago... Going into the precision editor, and adjusting the clip end-points to leave room for the transition fixed this for me.

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