My iMovie '09 won't import or export any video.

Somebodys going to say it's a formating issue, this can't be the problem because I've been importing and exporting for at least 7 month. All in .mp4 format. So this is my evidence that formating can't be the issue to my problem. When I chose to import a video, I'll click on the import button and the drop bar comes down and It says that its importing the video. Just as it comes down and says this it goes right back up. After this theres a loading circle in my un-used videos as if it was going to load into that area for me to use in videos and edit it and stuff. Right after iMovie does this, no thumbnail of the clip comes up and it's as if I never imported the video in the first place. I tried to reinstall the application all together. absolutly nothing came of this and I'm back to where I started with the issue. If Anybody can help me with this issue that would be FANTASTIC.
Thanks. I hope somebody out there is smarter than me.

One thing to try is deleting preferences.
Home-library-preferences-imovie preferences
also, sometimes people start running out of hard drive space...is there enough room left?
Hugh

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Hi
NO CAMERA or A/D-box
Cable
• Are You sure that You are using the FireWire Cable - USB-Cable will not work for miniDV tape Cameras
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A/D-box
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Connections
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External device’s (hard disk’s)
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Mac
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(HAS TO BE Mac OS Extended formatted - USB/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange WILL NOT DO)
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from LKN 1935.
Hi Bengt W, I tried it all, but nothing worked. Your answer has been helpful insofar as all the different trials led to the conclusion that there was something wrong with my iMovie software. I therefore threw everything away and reinstalled iMovie from the HD. After that the exportation of DV videos (there has not been any problem with HDV videos) to my Sony camcorders worked properly as it did before. Thank you. LKN 1935
from Karsten.
in addition to Bengt's excellent '9 yards of advice' ..
camera set to 'Play' , not rec/computer/etc.?
camera not on battery, but power-line?
did your Mac 'recognize' this camera before...?
a technical check.
connect camera, on, playback, fw-connected...
click on the Blue Apple, upper left of your screen ..
choose 'About . . / More . .
under Firewire.. what do you read . . ?
More
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Thanks for all your suggestions. What I learned is that I had a software problem. I had something called "Nikon Transfer" on my Mac that was recognizing my Canon camcorder as a still camera and was preventing iMovie from working properly. After un-installing Nikon Transfer and doing a reboot, everything worked great.
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No Camera or bad import
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jiggaman15dg wrote
if you have adobe cs3 or 4 and have the adobe bridge on close that
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DJ1249 wrote
The problem was the external backup hard drive that is connected, you need to disconnect the external drive before the mac can see the video camera.
MaryBoog wrote
Maybe your problems is solved in the meantime, but for all others this might help as I had the same problem, also have the Sony HDR-HC7, but the 7e (Europe, PAL). I found this link today and it works perfectly
//support.sony-europe.com/tutorials/dime/videotransfer/vtransfer.aspx site=odw_en_GB&sec=DVH&m=HDR-HC7E
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This worked perfectly for me. Took me 2 days to find out. Could not find any clear thread explaining what I had to do on the camera and the manual was not clear either.
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