Imovie '09 won't import '08 files HELP!

I imported all my camera contents into iMovie '08 and all worked well. Later, my hard drive crashed so I upgraded to iMovie '09 with the new hard drive. My iMovies files were retrieved from an external hard drive backup. When I try to import the new files, IMovie '09 will not read them--it's like the files are empty (but they really aren't). Some are .mov files, some .dv files. Any suggestions?

Hi Suzq - don't want to alarm you, but are you aware of the following when importing video from iMovie HD projects:
Only the source video is imported; any additions or changes you’ve made to the video in your project are not imported. When you import video from iMovie HD projects:
● All clips from the clip viewer are added to a new Event.
● All clips from the timeline are added to a new project.
● Any clip that was dragged into the project from the Finder is not added to the new project.
● All transitions are replaced by cross-dissolve transitions.
● No titles or effects that were applied to the video are transferred to the new project.
● No music is transferred to the new project.
● Any clip that was dragged into the project from the Finder is not imported; only video clips that were imported from a camcorder into the original iMovie HD project are imported to the new project.
The above was extracted from iMovie '09's Help topic "Importing video from iMovie HD projects".
John

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