Help with importing video from digi camera

Hey guys, we made a short movie on the spur of the moment so we just used my digital camera and when I plugged it into the computer it would only show up in iPhoto obviously. But I imported the movies into iPhoto and then I was hoping to import them from there into iMovie but when I do it only zooms in on the first frame and doesnt play the clip. Is there any way to be able to get a video off of the digi camera and be able to edit it on iMovie, Thanks.

Another thing you can do, is put the video clip on your desktop from your digi camera. And then in iMovie, do File > Import and then open your video clip from your desktop.

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Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
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