IMovie won't let me import

I was importing a few videos onto iMovie from my video camera and everything was going smoothly. Then my video camera died in the middle of the import. It said I ejected the camera improperly so I took my video camera out of the mac and charged it. I put it back into my mac after it was charged and the import screen on iMovie popped up and I clicked import all into the same folder that I started the import on. The import screen then goes away and nothing happens. The blue clock doesn't appear or anything. I tried importing it into different iMovie folders and the same thing happens. Now if I have my camera plugged into my mac I can watch the whole thing from iMovie and take protions out and edit it but when I eject the camera it all goes black and says camera missing. I tried deleting all the videos and importing them again but the same thing happens. I tried saving the videos to my computer and importing them from my computer it won't let my click on the videos. I've tried EVERYTHING and I have no idea what to do. PLEASE HELP!!!!

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