Exporting into IMovie

Help - I followed the last discussion about moving sideshows from Iphoto into my Quick Time Player so I could be able to view my sideshows back-to-back. After exporting into QuickTime, I then followed the instructions to drag the sideshows into IMovie. I opened IMovie and clicked the setup button and then it directed me to name my project which I did. The instructions in IMovie said to drag my items to the bar that said drag photos or movies here. I did it repeatedly and it does not work. They just pop back to Quick Time Player. What is my next step to get my sideshows into IMovie?

The Finder is the file browser on your Mac. So find the file of this movie and drag it to the iMovie icon, or use the Import command under the file menu.
Some links that might help:
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/movies/
And I'll guess you're fairly new to Macs:
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/
And the iMovie forum
https://discussions.apple.com/community/ilife/imovie?view=discussions
Regards
TD

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