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I am trying to import long movies from the iPhone to iMovie. I am able to use image capture to transfer the movie from the iPhone, but then I can't import it into iMovie. I set iMovie to import the file, and it says that it is doing so and that it is generating thumbnails, but then when it finishes nothing shows up in iMovie. I have made sure that I have ample room in my hard drive, which I was told at the Genius Bar could be affecting iMovie's ability to work with the movie, so that's not the problem. Ultimately, I'm looking to be able to transfer the movie to iDVD so I can burn a DVD.
I've tried importing directly into iMovie and iPhoto. I get the same non-result in iMovie and an error message in iPhoto.
I'm using iMovie '11 version 9.0.4 (1634), on Mac OS X, Version 10.7.3 on a MacBook Air. The movie is about 65 minutes long.
Has anyone else had this problem, and if so, what was the solution? I admit to being very surprised at the difficulty of doing an Apple-Apple transfer. Thanks.

What might be happening is you might need to Optimize the Video to Full Size. Use the File Menu > Optimize > Full Size for each of the video clips in your iPhoto Videos folder inside of the iMovie Events Library. That should trigger iMovie to recognize the original size/resolution of the video clips and then enable the HD size output in the iMovie Share Menu.

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