Yes to all that!   But I can not open iMovie Library!  It is easier to update 
clip by clip than complete start from scratch.   If only it had “Step Backward” 
 commands like Photoshop!  
I agree, the crux is What Caused It.  
Severin


> On 16 Oct 2017, at 10:02 am, Stephen Chape <chap...@bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> I have not tried this, but perhaps if you could find the iMovie Library in 
> Time Machine.
> But you would need to get it between adding the original clips and starting 
> editing.
> Alternatively start a new project from scratch importing the clips again.
> 
> Bit of a pain but I cannot think of anything else.
> Problem is what caused this in the first place ?
> 
>> On 16 Oct 2017, at 9:33 am, Severin Crisp <sevcr...@westnet.com.au 
>> <mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au>> wrote:
>> 
>> No my problem was every clip and transition!!
>> Severin 
>> 
>> Sent from Sev's iPhone
>> 
>> On 16 Oct 2017, at 08:56, Stephen Chape <chap...@bigpond.com 
>> <mailto:chap...@bigpond.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Severin.
>>> 
>>> I have used iMovie on and off for quite a while.
>>> Strangely it is the Transitions I have had the most trouble with.
>>> Just thought … did you mean “every clip” or “every transition” ?
>>> 
>>> There is an option somewhere “set all transitions to the same length as 
>>> this one”.
>>> 
>>>> On 15 Oct 2017, at 6:03 pm, Severin Crisp <sevcr...@westnet.com.au 
>>>> <mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> After many years circumstances have forced me to learn iMovie whIch I am 
>>>> finding remarkably easy and its is very user friendly.
>>>> During this process I have twice had the following disaster whIch caused 
>>>> much gnashing of teeth and wild wailing.   I believe it happened from 
>>>> pulling 
>>>> or pasting a title badly or misplaced and the result was the title going 
>>>> missing and every clip in the rather long movie being reduced to 3secs!  
>>>> I was lost how to recover other than the brute force bit by bit method!   
>>>> I was at a loss how to use my usual method of backtracking on Time 
>>>> Machine.  
>>>> What should I have done? 
>>>> Severin
>>>> 
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