IMovie video issue need some advice.

My imported video on iMovie does not playback properly. After dragging a clip to the timeline and playing it I encounter a problem. The video stays in one frame and does not play but audio plays throughout the entire clip. What could be wrong? The imported file format is .mp4. It works flawlessly in QuickTime but for some reason it has issues in iMovie. I can't figure it out. I also want to add that the .mp4 file was transferred via USB stick to my Mac from my PC capture card. I don't know if this has something to do with it. I assume that it shouldn't since a compatible format with iMovie. Any help would greatly be appreciated.

I am running out of tricks. If the following does not work, I would suggest you contact Apple.
Here are two or three more things to try.
1) Right-Click on one of your clips. Then Reveal in Finder. There should be a named iMovie Event folder with all your clips in Apple Intermediate Codec.  Make sure all the clips open in QuickTime Player and are full length.
2) If so, it is possible that there was a crash or hang during the thumbnail and analysis generation process that would occur after the transcoding to AIC. So I would recommend you drag to the trash any Folder in the Event Folder  such as Image Stabilization, Thumbnails, or Cache. Take care not to delete the real AIC clips. After doing this, shut down iMovie. For good measure, restart your computer. Then restart iMovie. It should recognize this as an event without thumbnails and start to regenerate the thumbnails, stabilization, etc.
3) If that does not work, go back to your original clips. They should be in the iMovie Original Movies folder. Depending on where your Event is stored, this will either be in the Movies/iMovie Original Movies folder on your startup drive, or in the iMovie Original Movies folder at the top level of an external drive. Try reimporting them into a new Event Name.
4) If that does not work, there may be ways of transcoding your mp4 files outside of iMovie, but this should not be necessary. Shout back if you need instructions for how to do this.

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