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I just imported some footage from my DV video camera. Because there was some blank space at the beginning, and a snippet of previous stuff on the tape I used, it imported as 3 clips. Which is fine, because I just deleted the first and last clips. This is not my problem, but I mention it in the hopes that it might give you a clue to the solution to my REAL problem, which is...
In the Event Library (lower left-hand panel), instead of being listed with my other 2007 videos, it's listed as an item in the year 2021! Stranger still, when I click on the clip itself (either in the lower right-hand panel with the thumbnails, or its listing under the 2021 year in the lower left-hand panel), its date is listed correctly (as September 22, 2007) in the horizontal gray bar running across the top of the thumbnails. Hmmm! Somehow, iMovie has decided that this event took place in 2021, even though this particular clip in that event comes from 2007.
The date is set correctly in my DV camera. And I have imported other clips from this DV camera and they all showed up in the 2007 list. My MacBook Pro's date and time are set correctly.
I've tried to move the clip to the 2007 year, but it insists I merge it with another clip. How can I tell iMovie to change the date it thinks this thing is from? iMovie is supposed to be strong in finding video on my hard drive and making it organized and available to me in the Event Library... but how can it do this if it insists that video I shot and imported today was actually done 14 years in the future???
Message was edited by: James Weinrich1

I don't know what caused the problem, but here's how I solved it. Thanks, everyone, for your help.
I searched for 2021 using Sherlock. I found two files with the date in their names; one was the .dv clip itself, the other was the file for the thumbnails. I changed their names from 2021 to 2007.
I also found the text file entitled "iMovie Data" which was in the folder named with the movie clip's name. The 2021 date was in that file once and was presumably the link to the video files whose name I just changed. I changed that date from 2021 to 2007 and saved it.
I relaunched iMovie and the clip was in the 2007 area, where it should be.
I wasn't in the mood to experiment, so I don't know if it was necessary to change all 3 things. It probably was, for consistency at least.
Darn! I changed all those dates without checking what the lottery numbers were gonna be in 2021!! I guess I can't retire then after all...

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