Generic Error with Priemiere Elements

I am beginning to shoot footage for a stock company and was trying out the trial version of Premiere Elements 11. I am running an iMac version 10.7.5 and the camera I am using is the Panasonic HDC-HS700 HD. I shot the footage in that then used the Aunsoft Panasonic ACVHD converter to convert the H.264 vodeo .mov format. This worked fine and I did a quick edit using MPEG Streamclip program and was able to submit the footage. But I wanted a more robust editing program so I DL'd the Premiere Elements 11 trail. The installation went fine but when I tried to drag or open the file I would get that a generic error occurred with no further explaination. This happened when I dragged the file in and also when I tried to import it from the organizer. I tried rebooting the computer but that did not fix the issue.
I had read that Quick Time needed to be a current version and I have version 10.1.
I can view the file in Quicktime and I can also drag it into iMovie without a problem. There just seems to be an issue with getting it to load into Elements. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
Dave

Welcome to the forum.
I am not sure exactly what you were trying to do with PrE (the PrE 11 trial).
Let's step back to what one needs to do, to edit with PrE.
First, a New Project will need to be created. This can be done from the Welcome Screen. Locate and name that New Project.
Once created, and Open in PrE 11, there will initially be nothing showing - a blank Timeline.
Go to Get Media, navigate to where you media files are located, and Import those.
Then, from the Project Panel, with those Imported media files, drag 1, or more, to the Timeline.
For more background on working with PrE, Steve Grisetti has a great Basic Training Series on Muvipix.com (a sister site to this forum): http://www.muvipix.com/products.php?searchphrase=basic+training&btn.x=21&btn.y=7 Just scroll down to the Premiere Elements 11 Basic Training Series. That will quickly get you up to speed.
If you decide that PrE 11 is the program, that you want to use, I strongly recommend Steve's Muvipix Guide to PrE 11, also available from Muvipix.com, and Amazon. When you get past the basics, he has a great Tips & Tricks book, that is a companion, that takes one into the realm of highly creative and advanced video-editing techniques.
Good luck,
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