iMovie '09 won't import movies made on my Mac
I know, I know...iMovie '09? Yeah, iMovie '09.
Here's the scenario:
On my MacBook Pro (15" 2.2 GHz i7, 16GB RAM, OS X 10.7.4) I launch QuickTime Player (10.1) and record a video using the built-in camera by selecting:
File > New Movie Recording
When I'm done, I stop the recording, quit QT Player, and launch iMovie '09 (8.0.6) to trim the video down to what I need. In iMovie, I go to:
File > Import > Movies... and select the video I just made.
The drive I've selected has 70+GB free (this particular video is only about 20MB). "Optimize" is not selected, "Copy Files" is, and I hit the Import button.
I get a progress bar that reads "Copying Files" for a little less than a second, and then it disappears and is replaced by the following message:
Copy Failed
This file could not be copied:
/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/dane/Movies/Movie Recording.mov
(-43)
Before anyone gets on me about using old software, I should say that I've done exactly the same thing dozens of times with exactly the same hardware and software. The sudden inability to import a movie made using Apple software on my Mac into Apple editing software on my Mac strikes me as utterly absurd and is frustrating beyond words. I have deleted the iMovie prefs and had the same problem. I then ran YASU (why not?) and still have the same problem.
Any ideas? Any other helpful info I can provide?
Thanks!
Dane
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)