Imovie file to imovie hd

im trying to get a project from imovie and transfer it onto imoviehd, but every time i try it just says it is outdated and doesn't work, how can i change this?

A couple of questions:
1. What EXACTLY does iMovie say when you try to open
the project?
2. What version of iMovie are you currently using?
(You've posted in the iMovie 5 forum, but iMovie 6
should have shipped with your Mac.)
3. What version of iMovie created the project? To
check, open the application TextEdit. Then drop the
project file icon onto the TextEdit icon in the Dock.
The first few lines of the project file show the
version of iMovie that created the project.
4. What happens when you double-click on the QT.mov
to open it? Is there an error message? What does it
say? Or is the movie simply "empty".
5. How did you import the old project to your new
Mac? Did you use Migration Assistant to move stuff
from the old Mac to the new one?
Karl -- sorry, that's more than a couple -- Petersen
Answers
1. "The project “bully” was saved with an older version of iMovie HD. Opening it in this version will cause it to be upgraded, which will make it unreadable by older versions. Are you sure you want to open it?"
-then it says after i click "OK"
"the file “Spread from Center Multiple 03” couldn’t be opened and is being skipped. Click “Ignore All” to skip any remaining missing file messages."
-i click "ignore all" and then it skips every single fram and everything else.
2. yea 6 my bad
3.i did it on imovie 4
4. There is an error message that says a clip in the file cannot be found, it does this for every scene
5.i emailed to myself first then burned it to a disk.

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