Where is my slow motion? Treat still clips as photos?

I started a project in iMovie HD about 6 months ago. I now have the time to pick it up again and I have noticed that my ability to change the speed of the clip is gone. I'm not sure what happened or how to get it back, but I will definitely need this in order to proceed. All my plug-ins for transitions are gone too. I'm pretty sure I can easily re-install those, but the slow motion is the most important. Please help!
Secondly, is there any way when creating a still clip from footage to treat that as a photo so I can apply the "Ken Burns effect"? In other words, I'd like to scan the still image in the movie instead of having it stagnant for a certain period of time. Hopefully that makes sense. Any suggestions on this would be very helpful.
Thank you!

Did you look here for the Slow motion?
http://www.danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/images/FastSlowRevIm5.jpg
Sue

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Hi Craig - totally understand why you are a little confused as to why I'd want to apply a job lot action but as a wedding videographer, I end the film with a slow motion film sequence of their day. Although each clip does need fine tuning to fit both to the music and to the general feel of the clip as well as fine tuning the in and out points, I do generally use a 50% slow mo as a rule of thumb and work from there. If this facility was available I could then do all the work from the timeline to fine tune which would be so much faster.
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See the iMovie tutorials (in html and QT movie form) at:
http://www.apple.com/support/imovie/
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See the iMovie tutorials (in pdf form) at:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovieAtAGlance.pdf
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovieHDGettingStarted.pdf
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovieLesson1.pdf
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http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovieLesson3.pdf
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovieLesson4.pdf
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovieLesson5.pdf
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovieLesson6.pdf
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovieLesson7.pdf

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Hi,
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Do you have the issue only on new projects ?
Do you still have an old project where you used slow motion ? if so, just duplicate the project and cleanup all clips from the new project and you have a clean empty project with working speed controls. It works for me.
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I'm using fcp7 and I do skateboarding videography. I'm using a Sony PD170 at 29 frames per sec. When I add a slow motion to a clip it doesn't look really clear, I'm slowing it down 65%. Is there an effect or something that I can add to it to make it smoother? < </div>
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Where is my slow motion? Treat still clips as photos?

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