Importing iMovie HD6

Some of the movies I made in iMovie HD6 import into iMovie 11 while others do not, For those that do not, I get "no clips can be found" when I click on the iMovie HD6 icon. Those that do download nicely, preserving all the clips in the right order both a project and event, just the way it should. I have a MacBook Pro, early 2011, runniing OSX 10.7.4. What gives?

Hello marese:
Benvenuto alle discussioni!
Some analog to DV passthrough converters don't work in iMovie HD 6.0.1 like they do in iMovie 4.0.1
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/iMovieHD_6_bugs.html#analogDV
Does that help at all?
Sue

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