Can't open movie file in idvd

I made a slideshow in iphoto and exported it as a Quicktime movie. Then put it into the Movie folder so I could access it from idvd. But when I open idvd and try to open the file to work with it it is grayed out. And the existing file that I was working on before is grayed out. Anybody have ideas on why I am unable to open these in idvd so I can create theopening and burn to a dvd disk?

This frequently helps solve some problems. Quit iDVD. Search for the file named com.apple.iDVD.plist and trash it. (A new one will be created next launch of iDVD.) Or look in: User/Library/Preferences. This may solve project loading errors too. Restart and use Disk Utility to Repair Permissions.
You'll need to reset some Preferences.

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