Editing a video created with iMovie on powerbook...

I edited and made a bunch of videos on my G4 Powerbook using iMovie. I forget what version was on it, but I was still running 10.2 on my powerbook. For some reason, on my new MBP, I cannot open the video to edit it in iMovie (iLife 08). I can import the whole video (.mov format) and edit it that way, but there are a few that I never exported to quicktime (and donot have a .mov format) that I want to go in and change some titles and add clips. Is there a way to do this?

Do you have the original iMovie projects and media, rather than post edit material?
iMovie edits natively DV Stream codec media. .mov is just a container for video, audio, etc.
Also you may wish to look at iMovie HD (from iLife'06) which is available for download from here "http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/imovieHD6.html" for iLife '08 purchasers.

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