TS3634 Can't import archives to iMovie

I archived camcorder to external hard drive, but when I try and use the Import from Camera Archives, the files are greyed out and I get a message "Folder is not a camera archive""

Thank you! More than a year later with iMovie'11 (latest version 9.0.9) still exactly the same problem!! Just after archiving 16GB of camera files, I tried to import those files to make sure before deleting them. Whatever folder I tried to select within the archived hierarchy, the warning 'Folder is not a camera archive' appeared. (Rem.: all sub folders were not grayed out until the actual files it contains). Tried the solution 'restart iMovie' and suddenly during 'import from camera archive', selecting the same top folder grayed out all sub-folders and hitting 'import' worked as expected (as if camera is connected).
Thank you!
Paul
P.S.: reason why I use 'archive' is because for one reason or another, when using 'import' within iMovie all video files, which are already large enough when shooting HD, become suddenly 3 times bigger!! (1 sec footage of 2.8MB becomes more than 9MB; 1 hour footage 10.2GB becomes more than 34GB!!) But then I suppose I will have to search why in other threads

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Can't import archives to iMovie

I archived camcorder to external hard drive, but when I try and use the Import from Camera Archives, the files are greyed out and I get a message "Folder is not a camera archive""

I was just trying to troubleshoot this problem and restarting iMovie worked for me. You've likely tried this, but I spent an hour searching for answers first. How frustrating.
I had imported directly from my camera first, then tried to import from archive and it failed. Restarting iMovie then going straight to the "Import from Archive" worked for me.
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Hi,
For the last little while I've been using the archiving feature of FCPX and am now trying to access them... but failing. I have checked a few importing archives aritcles but they refer to the "Import from Camera" buttom which seems to ahve disappeared in my updated version of FCPX?
In the import window, there is a title "camera archives" but nothing is under it. I can navigate to where the archives are in the import window but they are all greyed out and so can't access them.
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TS3634 Can't import archives to iMovie

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