QuickTime video won't export to iMovie

I've been working on an iMovie project which is a series of screen capture recordings from QuickTime; the first two imported from my desktop perfectly fine and are now ready to edit in a new project, but suddenly I try to add a third and it simply won't appear. I go to File>Import>Movies and select the movie from my desktop, same as the previous two, and as usual the progress bar appears. It's a fairly long recording, so the exporting process claims to take an hour or two...the problem is, once the progress bar vanishes, nothing has uploaded/exported...the event/import library remains empty. I have tried this 3 times now, the same results each time (I've turned off auto shut down/energy saver temporarily to make sure nothing's interrupted).
I tried exporting the video to iMovie directly from QuickTime (File>Export To>iMovie). A progress bar appears but gets stuck in its initial loading window and never actually starts exporting...what could the problem be?? It may be worth noting my computer is beginning to "run low" on space, but I've received no notifications telling me my disk is completely full or anything like that. Would space restrictions cause these random malfunctions of import/exports...? Anything would help!! Thank you!

Hi
alt to Export back to Camera.
• Just set Camera in VTR/Play mode
• In iMovie Pref set "Playback via Camera"
• New tape and record
• In iMovie just press Play
I do this more often.
Deleting iMovie Pref file moght help
Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk 25Gb or more ?
General answer:
*Not knowing the origin to Your problem - General approach when in trouble is as follows:*
• Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk if it is less than 10Gb should rather have 25Gb
• Hard disk is untidy: Repair Permissions, Repair Hard disk (Apple Disc Util tool)
• Delete iMovie pref file - or rather start a new user/account - log into this and re-try
• Third party plug-ins that doesn't work OK (not relevant for iMovie’08)
• Program miss-match: iMovie 5.0.2, up to Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK
• Program miss-match: iMovie 6.0.3 or 6.0.4, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• Program miss-match: iMovie’08 v. 7.0.1, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• Screen must be set to Million-colors
iMovie pref file resides:
Mac Hard Disk (start-up HD)/Users/"Your account"/Library/Preferences and is named: com.apple.iMovie.plist
While iMovie is NOT RUNNING - move this file out to desk-top.
Now restart iMovie.
From LKN 1935: (in this case = iMovie HD (5), I tried it all, but nothing worked.
Your answer (above) has been helpfull insofar as all the different trials led to the conclusion that
there was something wrong with my iMovie software. I therefore threw everything away and reinstalled
iMovie from the HD. After that the exportation of DV videos (there has not been any problem with HDV videos)
to my Sony camcorders worked properly as it did before.
Yours Bengt W

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