Adding a Video TS folder to iMovie?

I'm not sure honsetly if I have iMovie '08 or what. I think it might say iMovie HD. Anyways, in either case assuming it's the same for both, how do I get a Video_TS folder into iMovie? I took video off of a digital camcorder that writes to mini DVDs and it just came off as a Video-TS folder. I tried dragging that folder into the clips area, but it does nothing. Any ideas?

So I copied the VIDEO_TS file off of it, but can't figure out how to get it into iMovie.
Basically, you have just two options:
1) The first is to "image" the file so that it appears to iMovie '08 as camcorder (i.e., either as camcorder mounted DVD or HDD content. In this case, iMovie will import the file using the "Import from Camera..." module which has its own MPEG-2 compression format converter which will transform the demultiplexed MPEG-2 stream to all I-frames (i.e., equivalent to motion-JPEG content) and place it in an MOV file container with the audio which is converted to AIFF along with a time code track and start and/or end offsets to reduce drift between the audio and vide tracks. Such image files can be created using Apples Disk Utility or by simply dropping the VIDeO_TS folder to the DVD Imager application icon. Mounting the image is normally interpreted by the platform as inserting a DVD into the optical drive or connecting your camcorder to the platform.
2) The second method (and the one I most often use) is to manually convert the VOB tile sets to an iMovie '08 edit compatible compression format. I prefer this as it allows me to select both the compression format in which edit natively and the settings to be used in creating the intermediate file. In this case I normally use the MPEG Streamclip (free) conversion application but be advised that this route requires you have the QT MPEG-2 Playback component ($20) installed. However, other applications will also work here but may not allow as many output options or include as many features.
I did find out that I am using iMovie HD if that makes a difference.
It makes a difference only so far as limiting your conversion options for native editing in iMovie HD. Otherwise iMovie HD will re-convert a non=edit compatible file to the project native compression format which you should try to avoid. If you content is SD, then it is usually safest to convert to DV since all frame-level editors will accept it. If the content is HD, then AIC/AIFF is a compression format accepted by both iMovie and Final Cut video editors without specialized QT components.
I really can't believe this is such a hard question to answer!
The question is easily answered. It is more likely that responders simply got tired of answering the same question over and over and assumed you could just as easily use the search option to find the answer.

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