I am using Movie Studio Platinum 17, using Windows 8.1. I haven't updated the program for months because I've been afraid of losing my project if I do so(which may be an unfounded concern).

I am copying and pasting from one project to another, but the problem is: I have meticulous cookie-cutter effects that become altered when I paste onto the new project. For example, in one shot, I'm using the cookie cutter 'rectangle' shape, which is normally a vertical rectangle, but in the copy-and-pasted version, the rectangle is now horizontal, and smaller, yet when I click on 'effects', the numbers say the size and position and everything is identical to the original, but it clearly is not the case.