Importing iMovie project into another iMovie project

Due to some problems experienced, I had to import video clips from my DV camera into two separate projects.
However, I would like to edit my video clips together as it was intended to be one continuos video after being edited.
When I open the first project and try to import the other project into it, I get a message saying:
Error during import
The file could not be imported: The file "_" can't be imported; QuickTime couldn't parse it: -43
As I am on a deadline, I would really appreciate any input.
Thank you

I'm getting the same problem and I've even tried cutting and pasting the clips to a new drive. Opening up a new project and then importing the clips into the new project. It tells me that it is preparing the clip for import and then nothing happens. Imovie hd goes into non responsive mode, I have to force quit cuz it hands up for about 20 minutes... then when I try to open the new project, the clip I was trying to import is listed as being in the trash. if pull it into the timeline half of it will be there but the other half won't.. This has only just started to happen. I've been able to do it successfully two days before. Any ideas?

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Pls advise current info as to combining 3 iMovie projects into one iMovie. Thanks!

Pls advise current info as to combining 3 imovie projects into one imovie. I will finish with idvd.
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Thanks for your reply, Klaus. I'm just now getting to try your suggestion to copy and paste from timeline rather than drag and drop from clipviewer. Alas, it seems to be choking terribly on the transfer. This video is not a 60 minute movie, either; it's about ten minutes. I has about 60 files to it. I did get to the point where I felt confident enough to empty the trash and save the project, so I assume the clips that are there are not still "attached" to the unedited dvs.
Earlier I tried to export, in the advanced settings, to the full quality dv, but the quality really dropped, way too much for the intended use. I'm pretty much stumped at this point, unless I can hear some other suggestions.
What I might try doing is simply dragging and dropping all the packet contents of the media folder into the other movie's media folder, but then I suspect I'll have to rebuild the darn thing from bits and pieces and it may be like putting Humpty Dumpty back together again...ugh.
I'm sure I'm not the first person to face this challenge, am I? Of course, my lesson learned is to build one dvd's contents in one imovie project. If it weren't for the fact that I need to offer viewers the option to "play movie" (play all the videos as one movie) I'd simply drag each movie into iDVD and do it that way (the dvd showing each video separately).
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Thanks. Your description helps.
I converted and imported dozens of analog video tapes
into iMovie. They contain various events in a
disorganized manner, as I would leave the same tape
in and just keep recording different events, until it
was full. My goal was to open each imported "tape"
in iMovie, edit and sort out the clips, name them,
and place them in various folders on my desktop.
If the suggestions made in a moment don't work, please answer these questions to make sure I "get it"...
1. Each imported analog tape arrived in one very long clip, right? And you want to split up that clip into several smaller clips, and keep just some of those clips?
---Keep and name accordingly, yes.
2. Will you have gazillions of small clips in the project, or just a few? (If there are many, many clips you need some sort of automatic method for handling the clips. If there are only a few, a manual method will work.)
--Many clips. I will put this in caps just to emphasize my goal. It will be a common theme throughout. I JUST WANT TO SAVE INDIVIDUAL CLIPS TO A FOLDER ON MY DESKTOP.
3. Are all the tapes in one iMovie project or did you import each tape to its own project?
--Each tape is in its own project. and there are numerous clips of my dog (as an example) spread over all the tapes. This is why I JUST WANT TO SAVE INDIVIDUAL CLIPS TO A FOLDER ON MY DESKTOP.
4. Do you have QuickTime Pro? If not, are you willing to buy it? ($30 from Apple.)
---I would rather not add yet another layer of convoluted nonsense and expense to this situation, if I can help it. What will QTP do that QT 7.03 can't?
5. Is it crucial that you end up with one file for each clip, or is a collection of topic-related clips sharing the same iMovie project sufficient?
---1 file for each clip is necessary. As an example, on 1 analog imported tape, I may have video of my dog, video of a friends BBQ and a fishing trip. Within each "theme" (BBQ, fishing trip etc..) , I may want to split up the video of my dog into various clips and name them accordingly. Such as "dog chasing ball", "dog swimming". The friends BBQ might have clips such as "friend puking", "friend stepping in puke", "friend putting cheese on burger" etc... On my Desktop I would have folders called "Dog", "BBQ", "Fishing" etc.. As I go through each project, I would extract and name all clips and either "share, export, massage, excise, resect, snip, cut, paste, incise, remove, chop, crop, trim etc..." or whatever magic word it takes to get that F^&%ing clip, AS NAMED, into a folder on the desktop that I choose. This, I was silly enough to think, could be done with a simple "Save As"/Desktop/<Folder> command. So, after wasting my money on iLife '05 which is supposed to "simplify my digital life", I now need to find some way to engage in a frustrating game of software masturbation, and possibly, additional cost, to accomplish this otherwise simple and benign task. How might I proceed?
Basically my destop folder structure should end up looking like this.
DOG STUFF FOLDER
dog running clip
swimming
dog chasing ball clip
playing with frisbee
in car
playing guitar
VACATIONS FOLDER
FISHING
big fish
small fish
stupid fish
MEXICO
drinking tequila
drinking more tequila
falling down
getting up
....and so forth
Now, all I would have to do is import DOG STUFF FOLDER clips into a project called DOG PROJECT. Then, go to VACATIONS FOLDER and import FISHING and MEXICO into their own, or the same, iMovie projects, depending on space. Etc...
Here's the big problem: unlike digital video, analog video may not have a timecode. Without a timecode, iMovie can't separate it into clips when you import it to a project. As important here, you can't define the clips, export the project to the camera, then re-import it without losing the clip separations.
--Not my goal anyway to re-import anything to tape. I don't mind large 40 minute clips, as long as I can break them up as I see fit. And.. SAVE INDIVIDUAL CLIPS TO A FOLDER ON MY DESKTOP.
If it's okay to lose your clip separations, then that's an easy solution. Split the large clip into smaller ones, discard the clips you don't want to keep, export to the camera, then re-import to a new project. Discard the old project. The new project will contain only the video you want to keep.
---I could do the same with a VHS deck and my camcorder. So, what do I need iMovie for? Again, not my goal. I just want to SAVE INDIVIDUAL CLIPS TO A FOLDER ON MY DESKTOP.
Instead of exporting to the camera you could export to a Full Quality DV QuickTime movie that you either store on the hard disk or import to a new imovie project.
--This doesn't work well if I want to first parse all my clips from all my tapes that contain my dog in them and then import them all into a new project all at once. Or am I missing something?
There is a way to convert each (split) clip into its own Media file. When you apply a special effect to any clip iMovie creates a new file containing just the special-effected clip. If doesn't matter what the effect is. So, try this: Select a clip, activate the Effects tab, configure a Sharpen filter with the minimum sharpening, then Apply. Double-click on the sharpened clip and note it now has its own file. When you Copy and Paste that clip THAT's what gets copied, not its original source file.
---Ok..but I don't want effects on the clip. I just want to SAVE INDIVIDUAL CLIPS, AS IS, TO A FOLDER ON MY DESKTOP
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Select All the clips and apply the minimum Sharpen filter to all together. Wait. Rendering will take a while. Save. Now Copy and Paste the clips to whichever projects you want. A single file will arrive with each Pasted clip. Or you can drag them to Finder folders.
--Precisely.. This is another form of wasted time, effort and software masturbation that I was describing. I do not want to sit for hours while my clips render, just to accomplish something else that had nothing to do with applying effects to the clips in the first place. Once I have all the raw clips in a project, I plan on giving them to a professional video person to make a video. That's why, ALL I WANT TO DO IS SAVE INDIVIDUAL CLIPS IN THEIR RESPECTIVE FOLDERS ON THE DESKTOP.
Karl, I do appreciate your help and my tone has nothing to do with you. I'm just hoping you might be able to help me. I'm just steaming out of my ears that I gave up the PC world to use Macs precisely for the very reason of getting away from all this crap of doing a million stupid things to accomplish a goal. It's like scratching my right ear with my left foot. If I wanted to do that, I would stick with a PC!! At least, this way, I can be just as frustrated for a lot cheaper.
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Karl

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