Importing sony cx115 data to imovie

When I am trying to import videos to Imovie I get this error message (translated from dutch). "Event cant be made. Importing has been canceled. Possibly you have insufficient rights to write to '/Users/me/movies/ImovieEvents.localised." What to do?!?!?! I am desperate, first I thought it had to do with my camcorder (returned a JVC), then I thought it had to do with my older version of Imovie (updated to version 11)....Before I updated imovie to imovie 11, I tried it out in the store, worked perfectly there...My guess is that its a some kind of protection issue, for example when I am copying a large file from an external HD to my mac it asks my to type in my password but it doesnt give me that opportunity when I want to import data to imovie...I would highly appreciate your help!! Have a merry X-mass everybody.

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