How to import videos from library to IMovie?

It keeps saying:  None of the selected files or folders can be imported. Change the selection and try again.

Are you trying to import clips from one iMovie libary to another or are you importing from a folder on the mac (in movies, Documents etc)
If you are trying to import from a libary, its best to manually copy the clips out first.
In Finder:
Go to Movies (Or whererver your imovie libary is saved)
RIGHT click on the imovie.libary
LEFT click show package contents
Now you should look for events, open or double click on that
To make it easy, copy the folder of the event with the videos in the libary (for example, "Birthday 14" is an event in imovie but this is the folder with the videos in) Right click on it, left click copy.
Go to the movies folder then paste the folder (Right click in white space > paste)
Then try importing from that. Basically you extract the event out of the imovie libary and imovie will just think of it as a folder with videos inside

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