How do I get an MPG video from iPhoto to iMovie

I have several .mpg movies in iPhoto (from my SONY DSC-H5 camera) that I want to bring into iMovie. If I tr to drag them nothing happens If I export them to the desktop they are greyed out in the iMovie import.
How do I bring them into iMovie
Larry Nebel

If I tr to drag them nothing happens If I export them to the desktop they are greyed out in the iMovie import.
The MPEG1 compression format was not developed by Apple and does not share Apple's QT temporal synchronization technology. As such it (like MPEG2, Flash, and other third-party proprietary compression formats) is not "fully" supported by nor can it be edited in the QT structural environment. In this case, use an MPEG based third-party application like MPEG Streamclip (free), iSquint (free), Visual Hub ($$), etc. to convert your files to an intermediate compression format for editing in iMovie.
Would normally recommend DV as the intermediate format for FCP, FCE, and older versions of iMovie to avoid a secondary conversion during import. However, iMovie '08 will accept and edit in a number of different compression formats. DV is, of course still acceptable and is a reasonably fast conversion with reasonably high relative quality. Unfortunately, Animation (a very quick, higher quality compression format often used for intermediate conversions) is not properly exported at this time by iMovie '08 and should be avoided at least for the present. AIC (Apple intermediate Codec) is also a high quality compression format that could be used but is somewhat slower in conversion speed and, like DV and Animation, produces rather large files for editing. At the opposite end are codecs like MPEG4/AAC and H.264/AAC. These produce much smaller files for editing which are somewhat reduced in quality.

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