Converting an animated gif to avi.

I am trying to import animated gifs into my iMovie. I was wondering if anyone knew how to import these with out using Quick Time Pro. Or if there is any shareware or freeware that would aid in this. Thanks for your help.
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welcome dgeraci to the  boards...
hmm, video is 720x480 pixel, 30 frames per second...
all anim.gifs I've seen so far are a fraction of this... (e.g. 30x40, 8fps)
it would look really.. ugly.
plus: this is a typical QTpro-conversion task...
iM handles "dv" only..
the converters I do know, esp. the free ones, "prefer" video codecs.. as mpeg or flv ... not tiny grafics...
sorry, I can not help....... :-/

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