My clips from my camera became completely different  later

I had clips from my camera that I put into imovie and it's just fine, then later on out of nowhere when I start it it says something like "this imovie projact is made for an older version of imovie, would you like to upgrade it and make it match your current version"
Strange thing is i never upgraded my imovie or anything and now I open it and the videos are in the trash, but isntead of the clips I have, it's dragonball z clips with the filename of my files which makes no logical sense. How can I get my clips back and why did this happen?

Hi
Not enough info (for me) to figure this on out.
• Any "Crash / Panic Halt" recently ?
• Any thing else updated eg Mac OS or QuickTime ?
• Free space on internal start-up boot hard disk - How much ?
Have You tested - to trash iMovie Pref file (while iMovie is NOT RUNNING) ?
Yours Bengt W

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