No video - audio only

iMovie doesn't show any video in the player, just audio.
Here's some background:
I got a new laptop, used Apple Migration Assistant to migrate from my old computer with OSX 10.6.1 and iLife '08 to my new computer with OSX 10.6.1 and iLife '09.
I have several videos shot with a Canon G9, a Canon 5D Mk2, and a Flip HD. Each of these videos will play in Quick Look and Quicktime, but when I import them into iMovie, I only get audio and nothing happens at all in the video window. I tried exporting them and indeed it only exports the audio.
Thinking perhaps it is a codec thing, I've tried converting them to nearly every codec available using MPEG Streamclip. With no luck at all. Even the usually recommended AIC codec won't show any video.
I tried removing iMovie (with Appcleaner), thinking that maybe it was because I migrated from '08-'09. Reinstalled - same issue. I've rebooted, opened Quicktime, installed Quicktime 7...
I'm at a loss. Anyone encounter this before?

I've just encountered this too, *+but only in HD format+*. Sharing wasn't producing audio (either to media brower or iDVD), so I chose "Share>Export Movie". I did a test on a project created from a 5 second clip from the offending and the successful event (life is too short). Working my way through Tiny, Mobile, Medium, Large and HD, all other "movies" had sound, that is the .3gp and m4v files.
Only the HD export to .mov didn't.
The event was HD from a Sony HC7E handicam. The really strange part is that another event, input on the same day, did carry the sound over when the project was shared through the media browser. Even stranger is the fact that the successful project doesn't have the orange line in the corresponding events (is there a clue here?). Each event was around 40 minutes.

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