IMovie, iSight, and 96 BM zero second clips...

Hi, this has never happened before, but I have a problem. I recorded some acts at an open mic with iSight and iMovie, but Imovie recognizes the clips as only zero seconds long, and the clips are all black. Nothing plays. I would assume nothing was recorded, but each clip has a differen't file size, revealed when I control click "get info". Any help would be appriciated! Thanks!
PS. I am using the latest version of imovie, and os x. I also have 768 MB of DDR SDRAM, and while I recorded using the isight I could see what I was recording in Imovie.
Finley

when I try to open one of the clips in quicktime I get this:
QuickTime cannot open the file: "Clip 13.mov"
it is not a file that QuickTime understands (-2048)
apple-i says that it is a quicktime movie when the clip is on the desktop
apple-i says that it is clip 13.mov when it is in imovie, and that the duration is 0 and the size is 627 MB
I dont know what apple-j does

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