Why Won't iMovie save my progress?

Right now I'm working on a ridiculously simple project. No more than five minutes long, a couple clips, a cross fade or two, and then done. Why the **** isn't iMovie saving this progress? I make these changes, i can't manually click File-->Save, so of course I'm left to letting iMovie do this for me, but it doesn't . After these changes, I quit the program, come back later to work on something else, and it's all gone.
I don't know who in Apple thinks this was a good idea--not implementing a manual SAVE function--something that literally every media software ever developed has done since the beginning of their existence. Why I can't be allowed to tell this piece of crap program to save is beyond me, because having to rely on the program itself to supposedly automatically track its progress and save by itself is not working.

I keep opening up imovie to find the project I worked on 3 projects ago open in the editing panel, and none of my new stuff, including imports, visible. However, when I click "project library" all the recent projects are there with up to the minute edits. Not sure what's going on, but try clicking project library and see if your stuff is there.

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