Video is not importing, only audio

I am trying to import a video to do a couple really quick edits (I just need to trim a few seconds off each end and would like to use a fade in/out transition at the beginning and end), but when I import the video, it doesn't work. I can hear the audio playing, but I only see a static frame shot for the video. Nothing ever changes/moves.
First I imported it as a .mov file, but then I read somewhere that .mov doesn't play nice with iMovie. So I converted it to an mp4 movie file. I can watch both (undedited) versions in Quicktime without any issues, so I don't believe there is anything wrong with the original file or the conversion.
Any ideas of what I am doing wrong?

One thing I forgot to mention: The original video was shot on my Nikon D7000 in HD and was imported into Lightroom for a couple quick color corrections. Then it was exported from Lightroom. The exported/edited video plays perfectly in Quicktime. So there is some sort of breakdown between in iMovie's capability to import the video.

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I have found that giving those portrait pics a very minor edit in Photoshop has fixed the problem - any adjustment at all, perhaps a slight colour shift. Now you may not have Photoshop, but doing the same thing in iPhoto would most likely suffice as well. I'm sure that in iPhoto you could select all of those pics (Command-Click on each one) and in the Edit > Adjust window, make a minor change to them all in one action e.g. a tiny sharpness adjustment.
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Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
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Bit depth : 16 bits
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Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
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Bit rate mode : Constant
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- Log the clip then do your capture of the video and Ch 1+2
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