Play back saved project

Hello:
I am a new mac user (12months) I am having a problem with an IMovie project that I saved. I played it several times with no problem, now when I try to play it the clips skip and the audio track is not in sync. It almost appears as if there is not enough memory. I have deleted the trash files and only have IMovie running. Can anyone give me some suggestions to fix this?

Hi l
This can have several different origins.
(Don't start with this)
1. One of the most common one is that the project (icon with a Star on it)
has been moved to an external hard disk that is not : Mac OS Extended - formatted
- but - Mac OS Exchange or DOS or UNIX
- Will not work - You need to copy out Your material to another disk and
re-format it to Mac OS Extended
2. Emptyting the trash in iMovie (not that one on Your desktop) is something I
Don't Do !
At All !!
3. Very low at - free space - on the internal hard disk > 10Gb free
(First I would try)
A. Repair permissions - Apple Disk Util tool
B. Delete iMovie pref files
C. Free up at least 25Gb on the internal disk
To start with.
Yours Bengt W

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*Not knowing the origin to Your problem - General approach when in trouble is as follows.*
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Macintosh HD)/Users/"Your account"/Library/Preferences
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com.apple.iMovie.plist
com.apple.iMovie3.plist
com.apple.iMovie7.plist
com.apple.iMovie8.plist
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