Importing to iMovie : where is my video ?

I've been working around the annoying quirks iMovie's been presenting to me, like videos uploaded directly to YouTube not actually appearing in my Channel, so having to save and upload from Finder.
But now I'm a bit stumped.
Here's exactly what happens, I import a video from my Canon EOS but after I've clicked import, a box appears saying "Optimizing Video", disappears then nothing. Where did it go ? :/
http://youtu.be/KUqEZQoa0Q8
It's not my computer or iMovie being slow is it ? The file still isn't there.
It's an OS X Snow Leopard version 10.6.8
Thanks to anyone who can help.

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