IMovie 08' refuses to display my iPhoto videos

Hey,
I've updated to iLife 08' (like most of us i guess)
anyway i have a problem with iMovie:
iMovie displays only a few videos from my iPhoto library,
although i have many more...
I tried to solve this in many ways, including re-installing the iLife 08
update, but there's no change...
what can I do?
did anyone else had this problem?
thanks

It has loaded some of my videos, but only old ones that I created with my old fujifilm camera. My Sony camera's videos have no loaded.
I would assume that this is a codec issue on apple's part and will hopefully issue an update to resolve this issue. (sony uses .mpg files, i think they use the mpeg2 codec)
the old fujifilm camera (S602z) creates .avi files (i guess using the mpeg4 codec)
What format does your camera make the files in?
how can we issue a bug request to apple?

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