Why is iMovie no longer recognizing mov. files?

My iMovie is no longer letting me import mov. files. Also, iMovie will no longer PLAY the .mov files I have already saved in my iMovie library. Does anyone know what might be going on here? Is it possible that some recently installed update may have caused this? Will I have to now convert all my .mov files to some other recognized file type or is there some way I can still work with .mov files in iMovie?
Thanks for any help. It's greatly appreciated.
P.S. I am using Roxio VHS to Mac program which is what is saving them on my computer as .mov files. Prior to a few days ago, it was all working fine. Then all of a sudden it will no longer recognizing the .mov files unless they are converted to some other file type.

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