.avi movies in iMovie

.avi movies that will open and play fine in quicktime will not import into imovie. The camera they came from is a samsung NV3 and the software that came with the camera for converting files only works on windows. Any help anyone????

Use MPEG Streamclip to convert it to DV and import that.
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