Your Quicktime version is beyond what is recommended for MC 2.8. Quicktime 7.3 is the latest qualified version. Here's hoping you sleep well soon!

eddieb:

 Your Quicktime version is beyond what is recommended for MC 2.8. Quicktime 7.3 is the latest qualified version. Here's hoping you sleep well soon!

lol me too!

im on quicktim 7.4.5, so you suggest i downgrade to 7.3?

Yes, I would recommend downgrading as well. 

Quicktime is critical for importing and exporting, and often these sorts of issues are related to having the wrong version of Quicktime.

You can find QT 7.3.1 here.

thank you for the link and the responses! you guys have been great.

installing, restarting, testing... brb

quicktime downgrade installed, but didn't resolve the issue

OK, I walked into this late, so I apologize if I'm repeating anything here...

You are trying to import movies created by your camera, correct?  Now, we're not 100% sure that Avid supports this format yet, so let's make sure that you can import QT movies at all.

Do you have QT Pro?  Can you change one of your camera movie files into another QT flavor, like Animation?  Even a short segment of it would be helpful, to see if that solves the problem.

And what are your import settings?

Kevin Klimek:

Do you have QT Pro?  Can you change one of your camera movie files into another QT flavor, like Animation?  Even a short segment of it would be helpful, to see if that solves the problem.

And what are your import settings?

no prob, any input is good input at this point.

I am using quicktime pro, yes.

It accepts quicktime files from my camera (non-high def) - the 720p quicktime files i import with it (different project settings) work just fine. Unfortunately, the camera only wants to spit out one file type, which is .mov.

here is a sample file (5.17 mb) straight from the camera

I'm importing files from my HDD not directly from the camera. I have tried each of the follow import settings:

DVCPro HD MXF
DNxHD 220X MFX
DNxHD 220 MFX
DNxHD 145 MFX
1:1 MXF
1:1 10b MXF

- all in a 1080i 59.9 project, resulting in the same error each time.

Interesting...

I downloaded your sample, and the screen is just green.  Not white, like a codec was missing, but green.  And QT is reporting it as an H.264 quicktime movie.  But this one looks corrupted to me.

Can you convert the QT movie from the camera to something else?  Try using QT Pro to take a segment and convert it to an Avid codec file and then try and import it.