Problem Importing v-clip from desktop

I'm having an issue importing a video clip from my desktop. It's straightfrwd click and drag maneuvor and it starts to import okay up until the 9min mark. At which it just sits for for about 1/2hr and then i have to close it down and start again. It's a 317mb .M4A clip and i'm running imovie on a 2.16 Ghz Intel system with loads of memory. Why is this happening to me???

Have you tried Copying the clip in Project A and Pasting it into Project B?
When you Copy and Paste clips, try to Copy and Paste all at the same time. More here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2356757&#2356757
Karl

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Can you tell us more about what you are wanting to do?
Are you wanting to use movie clips from your digital still camera to make an iMovie video?
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