Moving from PC to Mac, what format to use?

Hi ,
A friend of mine has just bought a macbook, he was using premier lite or some such on his vaio, and exported some video files as mpegs (not sure which kind) he was surprised they wouldnt play in Quicktime and couldnt import them into iMovie.
How can I help him??? what file type should he export as? I dont know if this is raw video from the camera or edited together video, probably both. Sorry i am not an expert in this area, but dont want him to regret his mac decision. He does love the macbook though!
thanks

Hi Simon:
Welcome to discussions!
This will get you started...
How can I edit MPEG or convert DVD or MPEG to DV
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/%7Eshmhav/SVCDon_a_Macintosh.html#edit_convertMPEG
Using MPEG or DVD footage
http://www.danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/tips_tricks/6010.shtml
MPEG Streamclip
http://www.alfanet.it/squared5/mpegstreamclip.html
MPEG-2 Playback
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2/
Sue

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