Trimmed .Mov File Wont Import to iMovie

I'm in the middle of a school project and needed a clip from a favorite film noir to showcase. I chose a scene from "The Sweet Smell of Success", and used 'trim' to extract the clip. I then went back to iMovie to incorporate it into my project. . . except I couldn't. It couldn't even select.

I used Quicktime Player 10, the clip was .mov (original file .m4v) and I was attempting to import it into iMovie '09 (8.0.6).

Any help?

I'd really appreciate it.

r.j.s said:

.mov is just a wrapper. The video is still a .m4v mp4 video using whichever codec was used to create it.

It wasn't a protected file, was it?

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Ah! Right.

And no it wasn't protected. I can actually import the whole movie fine, I just didn't want to waste the time & space. Do I need to convert the file? If so, what program would you suggest. I don't want to loose any quality. . .

r.j.s said:

If you don't want to lose quality, then import the whole file.

Otherwise, use MPEGStreamClip to convert it to a different type.

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I'll download the converter. Importing the whole movie would take well over an hour, and I'm short on time.

Many thanks for being so quick to answer the question.