Cut/paste mpg or mov files together -- NO SOUND

Hi There.. I converted some digital video from its native Sony format to MPEG-4 (mpg) on my Windows machine. QT plays the movies on my iMac just fine (with sound), but I cannot cut and paste the movies when I open them in the .mpg format. So, I have tried exporting to .mov format, but when I do that the sound is not exported with the video. Can someone please advise how I can "stitch" together movie clips from MPEG-4 format using QT Pro so that I have one larger movie, complete with sound? My ultimate goal is to pull them into iMovie (but iMovie strips the audio too), or QT movie format (any format is fine).
Thank you.
David

Use MPEG Streamclip (free) to convert your MPEG-1 files to QuickTime formats.
Export to DV Stream (.dv) works best for iMovie.
If you wish to keep the .mpg format the free software also allows editing (including copy/paste).

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