IMovie won't load my clip

iMovie should absolutely be able to load it though. It viewed through Quicktime Player and I saved it and went to iMovie to import it, I previewed it and it worked fine and then I clicked import. It then as it should closed the files screen and showed the little window where you can see the progress of the import. But the window only showed up for like a split second before closing again, with my video not in iMovie. I was wondering if it didn't load because the video was very short, like 2 seconds? Could someone tell me what went wrong?

... after editing the clip, I would select it in timeline, choose export/Quicktime/FullQuality (no loss of quality...) and 'selected clips only' and export that edited scene.. now, you have a single-solid file, you could re-import or use with that plug-in ..

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Try changing the screen resolution to something different, and then back again. See if that fixes it. If not, try logging off and back on. If not, try restarting. If the problem persists, perhaps a visit to the Genius Bar.
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Here is a link to a recent topic. It includes a post by me where I've provided links to other topics regarding this issue.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/21296973?ac_cid=tw123456#21296973
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