How do I get iMovies to see my imported videos?

Using iPad2, I purchased the iMovie app, and when I take my home movies in .mov form and import them from iTunes to the iPad, iMovies does not see any videos. Surely this app will work with existing home videos and not just videos shot wight the iPad. If the was the case I never would have bought the app in the first place, I wanted to be able to edit my family vacation videos shot with a local hd cam directly on my iPad.
Anyone know if I am doing something wrong?
Thanks.

I figured out several things in a past 24 hrs.
iOS iMovie will see videos only from iOS camera roll.
so if camera roll app cannot read the video iMovie will that fail at that to.
Videos from iPhone 4, and 3GS are not the problem.
I am trying to get videos from my other video camera.
Interesting observation: if you copy video from Mac iMovie events (.mov file) into a iOS camera roll it will not be recognized, but when you connect iPad to your computer and open Mac iMovie and you select iPad as camera source you will be able to see that video as beeing available for export.
All these .mov files are encoded differently so unless your video encoded exactly the same way as videos from iPhone 4 or 3GS it would not show in iOS camera roll.
Anybody has other ideas on encoding and file formats for iOS iMovie.
right now iOS iMovie is useless to me since it does not support my workflow, do not even want spend time learning it.
Please prove me wrong.

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