Screenium clips are inverted in iMovie HD 6

I have been using Screenium to make screencasts, but when I import the .mov clips into iMovie HD 6, the video is inverted top to bottom. When I just play the video through quicktime, it is right-side up. Is this a problem with iMovie or Screenium? Is there a way to rotate the video 180 degrees to make it right-side up?
Also, if I upload the the quicktime clip to Youtube and try to view it from the web it is also inverted.
Am I missing something simple here? I have been know to do that!

I have never used Screenium nor do I know anything about it, but iMovie 6 prefers footage in .dv format. You may have more success if you use Streamclip to convert the .mov to .dv before importing it into iMovie 6

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