Digital Video format for iMovie and iMac in general

I recently purchased a video capture product for my pc to digitize all the analog videos from when my kids were younger. The capture works great but, when I move it to the Mac (10.6.2), I'm told that the files (avi etc) can't be played.
Is the problem more likely to be on the Mac side or the PC side? Any guidance re this process (product and format to use) would be greatly appreciated!
TIA,
David

David,
What exactly are you using for your video capture?
Your answer may be to use a video converter such as this one.
http://www.importavitoimovie.com/avi-to-imovie/
or
http://homepage.mac.com/major4/
Matt

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