Importing to iMovie from iPhoto - doesn't work!!!

hello
i don't know if any one had this issue and if its something that i have been doing incorrectly,
i have alot of movies on my iphoto and tried to upload to imovie.
the program does not respond!
i tried uploading from the hard drive and got the same result.
the only time the imovie actually respond is when i upload directly from my camera
i made sure the files name and type are correct and used the instructions, but its still will not work!
i hope that someone can help me!
thank you

i have alot of movies on my iphoto and tried to upload to imovie.
the program does not respond!
iPhoto only requires a movie be playback compatible for it to be imported. iMovie requires a file be "edit" compatible before it will import the file at the "Finder" level.
i tried uploading from the hard drive and got the same result.
the only time the imovie actually respond is when i upload directly from my camera
Same result for the same reason. Files imported by the Finder must already be "edit" compatibile with iMovie '08. Files which are imported directly from a camcorder (with the exception of DV) have to be "converted" to become "edit" compatible with iMovie '08. The "Import from Camera" option automatically converts files imported from recognized devices while the import of files via the Finder does not.
Basically, if a file is not DV, AIC, Motion-JPEG, Photo-JPEG, MPEG-4, or H.264 along with supported audio compression formats it will not be accepted/imported by iMovie '08. Either you import the files directly from the recording device (or make the application think it is doing so) or you convert them manually. To know what is best/easiest for you to do, we would first have to know what kind of files (i.e., compression formats) we are dealing with here.

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