Quicktime 10.1 export to iMovie '11 in Lion

I am using OS X Lion, have made several screen recordings and I would like to use iMovie for editing. When I try to share to iMovie, I get a message stating iMovie is not set up. I have tried looking just about everywhere on this support site and have found nothing. Could someone give me advice?

I do want to add that the version of QT 10.1 existed before I upgraded to Lion.
Not unless you manually replaced QT Player v10.0 which is the most current Snow Leopard version with a copy of v10.1 which is only available in Lion before you upgraded to Lion.
Ok, I do have those 2 folders
Then, as previously indicated, the QT 10.1 "iMovie..." Share menu option should automatically create/place a copy of the currently opened QT Player file in your "iMovie Events/iMovie Drop Box" which you can then auto-import the next time you open the iMovie '11 app.
but the only help topics in iMovie are for importing.
You should have been looking in the QT Player "Share" Help menu but, unfortunately, it has yet to be updated to include the "iMovie..." Share menu option by Apple. In any even, as previously indicated, if you open a movie in QT Player v10.1 and select the "iMovie..." Share menu option, QT 10.1 should automatically copy or convert (as may be needed) the opened file to the "iMovie Events/iMovie Drop Box" which is then imported as explained in the iMovie '11 Help window.
If you want to manually "Export" the file yourself from QT Player v10.1, you can open the file in the QT Player and use the "Export" File menu option to manually export a copy of the opened file to the "iMovie Events/iMovie Drop Box" for auto-import the next time you open the iMovie '11 app.
Finally, since you stated the source file(s) is/are Screen captures, you can simply open iMovie '11 and use the manual "Import/Movies" File menu option to manually import the file(s) directly to iMovie '11 or alternatively drop-import the files directly from the findewr to a specific iMovie Event. Frankly, with so many options available, I don't understand why you are having problems unless you have corrupted your system.
Also, I did a search in QT for "export movie to iMovie Drop Box", and "Share movies to iMovie". The only results were for web and Podcast producer.
As previously mentioned, Apple appears to be a bit slow in updating the "Help" PDF for the new "Share/iMovie..." option. You can, of course, send feedback to point out this omission and possibly speed them on their way to correcting the matter.

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