Some videos won't import, some will??

I am using iMovie 10.0.5. I have made several videos in the past with no problems.
I am trying to upload videos from my JVC video camera. Most of them worked just fine. I was able to share them to my desktop and also put them in my movie and share the movie when I was done. So far, I have run into four videos, however, that will not import. They show up on the project but there's a little video camera icon that tells me they're still on the video camera and that I need to reimport them by going to the File menu and clicking "Reimport from camera/archive..." and there is no such option. I was able to get two of them to import after deleting and starting over. But I've tried several, several times with these last two and nothing is working. I've shut down iMovie and restarted. I've deleted and reimported. I've favorited. I've created a new event and imported them there instead. Nothing's working. I can't share them to save them onto my desktop and I can't share my movie with those videos on it because it says they're still on my video camera. If I turn off my video camera a big "?" appears on the video and it says the media is missing. PLEASE HELP! I am no computer expert, so speak slowly. ;-)

Get rid of any non-std alpha numeric characters from the file name, itunes doesn't like some special characters...e.g. -#><[],etc.

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