Drag and Drop a .mov into iMovie and, Why the wait?

Alright. This is getting very annoying. Every time I use iMovie, dragging my .movs into the application, I've got to wait about 12-15 minutes for it to "import" it. This is ridiculous. Since I've got 7 .movs to import, it's going to take me a couple hours "tonight" just to import them. Will have to do editing "some other day."
I'm I doing something wrong. What's with the waiting?

.mov is a container, no video codec. a mov can contain dozends of codecs, stills, music, aiff, mp3, aac, qtvr, video, h263, h264, sorenson1/2/3, mpeg1/2/4, divx ... etc.
iMHD6 is a DV-editor, meant to copy (=import lossless) from miniDV devices.. which use 'dv' as codec.
so, if your .mov contain anything else than dv+specific NTSC/PAL settings, the underlying Quicktime engines has to convert it.. a process of high computation = time.
plus, depending on your set-up, that process can take more or less time.. e.g. not enough disk-space 'brakes' the apps ...

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