iMovie Acting Strange

[Nersveen]

I took a bunch of video clips in a variety of formats, opened them in QuickTime 7.5.?, and flattened them into MOVs using the SAVE AS COMMAND. The individual files look and play great in QT, but when I go to import them into iMovie, they are grayed out and not available for import. So about HALF of what I have converted for import to iMovie are simply unrecognizable by iMovie's IMPORT MOVIES command.

Can anyone shed any light on this matter? Thanks in advance for those with ideas.

 

[Killey]

you are using iMovie '08, correct? Close iMovie. Go into the Event folder that contains the clip in question. Delete the corresponding thumbnail video clip (I believe it is in a sub-folder). Then re-open iMovie - it should scan through your Library and re-generate the thumbnail for the video clip. Does it show up correctly in your library after that?