I Cant get iMovie to upload videos taken on my Pentax A10 camera

Can anyone help? I was having issues with video files in iPhoto taken with my pentax. Other videos were playing fine and have uploaded to iMovie.
Installed Perian. Movie's are playing back with sound now in iPhoto so progress being made.
I can't however get iMovies to recognize these pentax video's and pull them in. Even tried a manual import but it won't let me select the files. Am I doomed to fail for this or is there another way?

This is an extract from a review of your camera:
"The Optio A10 is DivX® certified. Movie playback is not supported on Macintosh operating systems."
Perhaps MPEG Streamclip would be able to convert your files.
http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html
You could try downloading and installing then drag your files into MPEG Streamclip.
Select File > Export to QuickTime then choose the Apple Intermediate Codec.
The converted file will import into iMovie.
Z

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