imovie

I hate imovie right now-especially what I call the spinning techno colored ball of death-which is the equivalent of the little hourglass that pops up when it's downloading something, or taking you to another page. But this colored ball of death is more annoying than the hour glass, because it pops up randomly, and over nothing!! Then I have to sit there waiting for it to go away so I can get back to work. Everything seems to be going wrong with imovie as of late. First off I need to import video from dvd's- earlier I had imported the video from the video camera, and then burned it onto the dvd's, and then because space was limited, I had to delete the video to make room for more. Now we have to figure out how to take the dvd video, ripp it, to change the format, and import it back into imovie; everything I've tried, including HandBrake, and videomonkey, and some other one, I can't remember, have all failed. Well I may have been the one to fail at using them, but still the end result is the same. :S I also need to import video from tape into imove (which is how I did it to begin with) but imovie won't import it, no matter what I do! We have a deadline, and it's coming up soon, and we have no video!!! I don't know what to do. Right now I feel like one upset, tired, no good chica. Anyway I've got to get back to trying to figure out how to do all of this. Grrrr! :(