Issues with iMovie in viewing

I am getting weird playback issues with movies I've added to a project. My movie is like 40 minutes long. When I try to watch the finished product or put finishing touches on it, after hitting space bar the video skimmer moves, but the video preview stays still. I found the video in the library and same thing.
On a reboot or restart the program it works again normally then acts funky after a few minutes.
I didn't change my library, it just isn't previewing and I'm frustrated thinking the video is bad or something.
Has anyone had this buggy issue on previewing a movie in the screen or while skimming in your library or project that the video displays funny.
Brian

Ouch. I'm having the same problem. It is VERY annoying. Was hoping for a solution on here.
I find it is worse when I import 1080p from my camera. When I use 1080p, I can't even adjust the speed of large cuts (60 seconds) because iMovie will just freeze up on playback. Restarting iMovie will revert the clip back to normal speed but the same bug occurs when I try to adjust speed. I find I can break a long clip up into short sections (which makes no sense as iMovie optimizes the entire clip) and adjust speed on 5 second segments without and issue.
The playback is the most annoying. I don't know if it is worth exporting a movie, which takes time in HD, if it doesn't work on preview.
ANY fix for this?

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However, it seems iMovie 08 has issues exporting movies containing clips with Animation video.
iMovie will import them without a glitch, they will play perfectly inside iMovie's preview window but when I export the movie, all the Animation-encoded clips will not be rendered. I still have audio, titles and others clips encoded with different codecs but all the Animation part are pitch black.
Can anyone confirm this bug?

iMovie will import them without a glitch, they will play perfectly inside iMovie's preview window but when I export the movie, all the Animation-encoded clips will not be rendered. I still have audio, titles and others clips encoded with different codecs but all the Animation part are pitch black.
Check the video rate and the frame rate. See the pattern? Nothing I did would increase data rate or raise frame rate above 1. Looks like a real bug here.

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