Rookie Question??  IMovie won't play my movies shot on Sony HD-HDR550

iMovie was able to read and import files from my Sony HD-HDR550. But for some reason it is not able to import these files anymore into iMovie. I was importing them in iMovie and editing them in FCP. But for some reason it is not importing from the camera anymore.
I was able to do this without trouble -- I loaned my camera to someone who downloaded his files onto a PC but I don't see how that would affect my ability to see and import movies using iMovie. SO FRUSTRATING as it was working FINE before. Any help?

Since this is an iMovie question, I beg the question, why not ask this in the iMovie forum? Most of us here don't know thing one about iMovie.
Shane

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