Why can't my daughter edit kadak playsport videos in imovie

I purchased an iPad 2 for my daughter along with the camera connect kit and was told on two occasions in the apple store that she would be able to edit the video from her kodak playsport on it! This is not the case the video is imported but cannot be played or imported to imovie for editing! I find this incredible considering its a .mov file and works perfectly in the imovie version on my laptop. Can someone explain to me a workaround for this so I can show my daughter who is very disappointed with apple at the moment........ thanks in advance

To jezz, Doug and Brian,
If you have not already tried this, trash iMovie's preference file. It's in your user (Home) folder Library>Preferences and is named "com.apple.iMovie8.plist". Close iMovie before trashing the file. When next opened iMovie will create a new file with the default settings. You can change the settings if desired - in iMovie go to the menu item iMovie>Preferences and make any changes under each of the 4 tabs.
The preference file can become corrupted at times - the main culprit being iMovie quitting unexpectedly or crashing, causing iMovie to behave abnormally. When problems arise with iMovie, the first troubleshooting tip is to trash the preference file. This doesn't always fix the problem, but is worth trying.
John

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