Question about imovie

I imported 2 60 minute movies from my camcorder to one project. When I switched from import to the little scissor on the bottom. I think something about framing or something. Anyway, a notice came up said this could be awhile. 2 hours later, it was still doing this. I thought the program hung up so I did a force quit. Rebooted the 24 inch iMac and loaded iMovie. The clips were moved to a trash within iMovie. I dragged them back but they have a little x on them. Can I still use these clips or do I need to tranfer them again to the mac?
thanks
Randy

I imported 2 60 minute movies from my camcorder to one project. When I switched from import to the little scissor on the bottom. I think something about framing or something. Anyway, a notice came up said this could be awhile
'Awhile' is right! iMovie doesn't like you doing that. The trick is to save the project before you switch from import to edit, then it won't happen. I will rephrase that in case I am being too categorical: when I do it that way, it doesn't happen to me anymore!
You were right to force quit (life's too short!). The clips recovered from iMovie's own trash should be OK, but I am assuming that we are not talking about two 60 minute clips?
I would recommend that you save the project after every time you have changed something in it.

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