Clips from edited tape rearranged when imprted to Imovie 11

I am importing Hi8 tape played thru a sony digital 8 camera. The footage has been completly edited and saved to Hi 8. Trouble is when I movie 11 gets it the scenes are not in the correct order/ How can i import and keep the project in correct order?

format h.264, 1,920 x 1,080
ACC, 16000 Hz,mono
fps 29.95
data size 903.9
Data rate 12.04 Mbit/s
wow, that would have been nice if I could have copied it :-) any rate there it is. I checked one of the three files that did work and they say the same thing. I have handbrake (I know not what you suggested but I already had it so I thought I would give it a try) which so I tried converting it to a new file then adding that. when I added it It processed for a long time then didn't show up in iMovie. I looked in the finder and it is not in the event folders either. but this time no error message. after booting I copied the original file into the iMovie drop box folder and started iMovie and was prompted to import it so I added it to the event and after processing there it was suddenly with no errors or warnings.
This is weird! so it is working now. but I don't know why if you see something in the above that gives you any idea I still would appreciate knowing what happened. thanks for your prompt response.

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