Can't edit movie in QT Pro

I have a mpg that I took on my digital camera. It plays fine in QT but the editing controls are not showing up as I roll over the timeline.
Also when i import into iMovie, I get the video but there is no audio.
This is a movie of my 4 month old which I really want to edit. HELP

I have a mpg that I took on my digital camera. It plays fine in QT but the editing controls are not showing up as I roll over the timeline.
Multiplexed compression formats like MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 are "playback only" as far as the QT structure is concerned. Since the content is not "edit" compatible, QT Pro's contextual menus/controls are de-activated. And, while the video content can be converted to a fully compatible QT compression format, it will lose the audio since QT (a multitrack time-based engine) does not know how to cope with multiplexed files with spatially interspersed blocks of audio and video content in a single data stream. In this case, use an MPEG-based, third-party application like MPEG Streamclip (free) for your conversions to iMovie "native" editing compression formats like DV. NOTE: MPEG Streamclip requires the QT MPEG-2 Playback component for use with MPEG-2 files.

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