My imovie is shutting down repeatedly-especially when clicking on transitions

When using imovie, it has been shutting down often-almost every few minutes of work I do. It happens especially when clicking on transitions, or when dragging a transition up above. I have tried deleting some of the preference files that I saw were suggested online. Not sure what to try next.

No, you don't need anymore RAM, I simply asked because poorly installed or bad RAM can cause that error.
I'd try this:
Quit iMovie.
Locate a file named com.apple.iMovie.plist and get rid of it. iMovie will create a new one the next time it runs. Empty the trash and run a permissions repair from the Disk Utility folder.
The files are located here:
-->/Users/YourName**/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iMovie.plist
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But it wasn't the titles at all!! I thought for sure it was the titles because everytime i ran the mouse over the different title options, it shut down. only centered titles were not shutting down.
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