Video track freezes/audio works

iMovie5 43 minute project stopped working when about 95% complete. At one point had no control - wouldn't start or stop playing. Now the first video frame freezes but audio continues to play and timeline marker continues normally. If I stop and restart, it will pick up a frame and then skip a few frames(jerky motion)and again freeze frame while audio continues normally. I'm wondering if the project file is corrupted and I need to scrap it and start over. It is somewhat complex( for me) with two cameras,quite a bit of extracted audio,overlays ,music etc. Project used about 15GB,and there is about 25 GB of space left on HD. Worst case scenario, I do have original tapes.

Hullo HiFive - I wonder if your problem is caused by the often-reported issue of too many extracted audio clips. A search for 'extracted audio' would bring up a number of such cases, and workarounds.
See here for example:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=534252&tstart=0
and also, another good fix:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=587952&tstart=0
Increasing sluggishness and jerkiness is the indicator of this issue. It can be tested by progressive removal of extracted clips. One workaround is to share the audio only to Quicktime (AIFF), and reimport the resulting single audio track.
What happens if you uncheck the two audio track tick-boxes?

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