I cannot import to iMovie due to missing quicktime components

please help

acctually I don't think that screen shot worked did it.
Photo, image, and other graphic applications are normally managed by specific applications which may or may not keep iMovie updated regarding changes in the physical location of content. The basic rule here is to manage the content in the managing application and not muck about in the Finder making changes thet neither the managing app nor iMovie know about. The same holds true for removing/relocating iMovie Event and Procject content at the Finder level since path information will be broken/lost to the iMovie app.
It's whenever I start to launch iMovie I just get a pop up "the quicktime components necessary to view,edit,import and export sevral kinds of movies are not installed. These components are included with the iMovie installer; please re-install." I have deleted and reinstalled and tried a remedy from another question like this on the forum.
What did you delete? Some of the codec components are installed by iMovie itself. Others are installed by the Operating System. Still others are installed by "Pro" video editing apps if installed. Then there is the question of which version of iMovie we are talking about here. Old versions of iMovie could access third-party codec components to physically convert files during the import process. This open codec configuration essentially came to a halt with the release of iMovie '07. Since that time the files must either be edit compatible with iMovie to allow import at the file level or be located on a camcorder or similar device and be converted or made all I-Frame edit compatible during the import process from the device. Sinec you are either unwilling or unable to tell us how you are trying to import the content or tell us what specific kind of content you are trying to import, we cannot tell you where to check to see if the required codec components are located.
At this point the only recommendation I can make would be for you to pull out your system installation/reinstallation software, reinstall your OS and additional apps normally used on your platform. and update the reinstalled OS & apps as may be needed. Without additional information from you regarding what you removed, how you removed it, what you are trying to import and how, this is about the only way to ensure a viable solution to your current problems. Anything else would be pure guesswork on my part.

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What worked was I reinstalled Mountain Lion on my laptop
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