Editing Mini DVD

I working on a highlight film for a local basketball team and found that I cannot import the footage from a Mini DVD into iMovie? The only way I can figure out to do this is by copying the Mini DVD to Mini DV then importing that. This just seems like a lot of steps to edit this footage. Is there any way around this? Thanks for the help.

Hello,
I wanted to follow up with you on this question you helped me with a few months ago. I finally finished my project but when I burnt the project to DVD the last half of the DVD had images that were very blurred and seems to leave "ghost trails" behind. I have narrowed down the problem. The first half of the project I imported from MPEG streamclip and saved as DV. The second half I imported the Mini DVDs and saved as Quicktime files. When viewing these in FCE they looked fine but when I burnt the DVD I had the problems. Do you know of anything I can do to correct this problem? I have burnt the DVD in iDVD at best quality and best performance with no change. I have also exported the entire project to Quicktime and imported to iMovie with no success on the final burn. The only other thing I can see is under the render options there is a box for "motion blur" it was checked and once the QT files were put into FCE they had to be render so I thought that could be something but I don't know. I just thought I would try to contact you again since you have experience with Streamclip (which I think is awesome by the way, thanks for the tip). Please let me know.
Thanks,
Leon

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http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/getstarted/default.mspx
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2179?viewlocale=en_US
If that doesn't work, you may have to try this trick:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080605013811670
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