No Sound in iMovie 10 imports

Hi everyone,
i've made several screen recordings and wanted to edit them with the newest version of iMovie. The video clips are all having sound while playing them with QuickTimePlayer and VLC Media Player, but as I imported them with iMovie, the sound in the video was lost. Can you help me?
I'm looking forward to your suggestions.
Greetings from Germany.

Hey there. You might have been bitten by the
installer permissions problem. Open Disk Utility and
repair your permissions. There is also a QuickTime
7.1.2 installer available.
Finally, try forcing prebinding to run. Open a
Terminal window, and type the following:
sudo update_prebinding -root / -force
This is useful for repairing system slow-downs, but I
have also found that this will fix situations in
which I have done updates, and the applications which
depend upon modules modified in the update don't "get
it" so far as the new updated modules.
Thanks for your reply.
I've tried repairing permissions, I've now downloaded and installed QuickTime 7.1.2 and have tried forcing prebinding all to no avail!
There is still no sound in iMovie but iTunes etc. work ok.
If there's no solution forthcoming I'll be forced to reinstall Tiger to enable me to go back to QuickTime 7.0.4

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