Why are my movies clips freezing?

I am editing some video clips in iMovie 11 & when I hit the space bar it will play some then stop & start again. The audio is still playing & the bar skips to catch up with it. I have never had this issue before. Software is current.

The reason I asked about disk space is that what you described could be caused by not enough space. Movie projects take up alot of hard drive real estate, as you probably know.
I'd keep an eye on it and post back if it happens again.

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I can't remember exactly what I did. I do know that when I started it up, I couldn't find the Setup Assistant on the hard drive,
No, once a user has been created, you can't run Setup Assistant (without erasing and reinstalling).
What do you recommend for fixing this?
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When you first start up a Mac and create the first user account, OSX assigns it UID (User ID) #501. The next one gets #502, etc. Those UIDs (not the user name) are what control permission to files.
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When the Apple Store started up your new Mac, and created their account, it became #501.
When you used Migration Assistant to transfer the 501 account from the iMac's backups, OSX copied everything there "as is" except it had to change the 501 to 502.
The new 502 account has all the right permissions to things now in it's home folder, but the backups belong to user 501.
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