Please Help!!! Imovie 08 will not import some videos...

Please help before i go crazy!! i movie very recently has decided not to import certain videos from hard drive and i dont know why?!?! any ideas??? I am an actor and edit my own showreel and have some nice footage back i really want to use.
I have been burning the DVD from handbrake and each time i have done this before it has worked fine. I really dont understand whats happening. All help will be greatly appreciated!!!
Thanks!!

danmaxuk wrote:
.. I am an actor and edit my own showreel ..
.. DVD from handbrake and ..
.. seems like, iM is an actor's tool.. you're not the only one producing his own showreeel with iM.. lately gave some help to your British colleague +James Frazer+, accomplishing the same.. (besides being an excellent actor, James is a wizzard using iDVD!)
no need to use HB.. if the DVDs are not commercially encrypted/DRM (=no allowed discussions issue on this board), you simply abuse a MacOs Utility, shown in my screencast:
http://web.mac.com/akschluter/HowTo/DVDImport_toiM08.html
disclaimer: I may profit from linking to my site ...

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