Why can't I access my iMovie clips?

Okay, so I have been working with iMovie without any issues for some time now. I recently got a number of large video files (18 files each approx. 24 minutes long), and I started uploading them one at a time. I got the first eight files in without a problem by doing that. The remaining nine that I wanted to upload, I decided to just select them all and import them at once. It took about four hours to do this. When it was finally done, not only were the files I uploaded blacked out without sound or the ability to use them, but so were the previous files I'd imported and used in a project already. Now, when I go to my projects, the one I made using those files doesn't even open and is completely inaccessable.
Is there any way to fix this without deleting and reimporting the files? Because that took me ten hours and I'm thisclose to just giving up on it.
If it helps at all, I'm using a Macbook Pro with OS X and iMovie '11 version 9.0.4

that I guess is the problem
.mp4 is no Video-Codec but a container that can hold ones that iMovie can or cn not use
iMovie is very picky reg Codecs
QuickTime-player can open o many more
open the files that works in QuickTime player and then Inspector and note the Video format and frame rate.
then open the ones that do not work and see what goes for them
then convert them to the Codec and frame rate the works.
Yours Bengt W

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