Location of IMPORTED Movies in iMovie

So, I use an elgato game capture to make videos and once edited on the elgato program i have to export the video over to iMovie. However this has not been working lately, but this is an issue on the elgato program. This program offers other export formats such as just a normal .m4v file into my movies folder, i exported to that and it was successful, then i checked the file and it was correct. So i go on to iMovie and export the file successfully, as in it takes 10 minuets to export and then it completes. Now here is the issue: Once i had exported it, i could find anywhere on iMovie where this file was! It was not in "Last Import" or any of the little folders. So is it hidden somewhere or should i try and find yet another alternative way of getting the file to iMovie?
Note: i have tried rebooting the app

When you import a file into iMovie, it goes into an Event folder. It goes in the Event that you specify on the import screen. If you did not specify a folder, it might go into a default event or to the last event that you used.
Look along the left side of imovie to see the Events. It should be in one of those.

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