IMovie won't quit referencing camera after import.

After I import video from my camera and then disconnect the camera, IMovie clips won't finalize. It appears that the video has been imported into the library, and I can use the clips to create a video. However, when I disconnec the video camera, video clips that I had used from the camera are now not visible and the window displays "missing camera" with no video. At one point I was able to share the video to file and it created the video in Theater, but then when I tried to share to YouTube I get a message that it won't share due to the video still trying to reference the camera. How do I fix this?

Several people have reported this problem. It seems that occasionally iMovie decides to reference clips on the camera rather than copying them to the imovie library. I don't know why this is happening but as a workaround you could try first copying your clips and photos from the camera to your hard drive, disconnecting the camera, then importing them into iMovie from the hard drive.
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