Movie clips get hung up when viewing project

I have not worked on my imovie projects for a while but after creating a new project and using the 30fps the yellow numbers in the clips disappear and I can view the project. However, now clips keep getting "hung up". Movie plays and the audio (from i-tunes music) plays on while individual clips keep getting stuck for a couple of seconds before carrying on or jumping part of the next clips. Have tried detaching audio from the the clip but no change. Does anyone have an idea what this could be and how to solve it. Have posted this question in the frame rate problem section as well.

Hi there
Where is the existing project located? If you say it's on a network drive, that's likely the cause. But if it's on a local C drive, odds are something else is afoot. Is source control involved?
Cheers... Rick
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