IPhoto Videos (iPhone backup) in iMovie 09

They display as clips in the bottom right hand window but do not behave like normal event clips. i.e. Split event before selected clip is greyed out. Help!

I have been struggling with the same issue (I have iLife 09 + 10.6.1). I spent a few hours with the Apple support to figure out the issue. Here is the cause of this problem, in my case:
In iPhoto -> Preferences -> Advanced, Importing: the default is to "Copy items to the iPhoto Library". I have unchecked this option, which means I don't want to copy my files into iphoto library. After upgrade to Snow Leopard, any videos imported into iphoto without copying don't get listed in iMovie.
Apple support now has accepted the bug (they reproduced it on their own machines). Of course, I don't know what that means. We may see a bug fix in the future.

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