Editing my video on iMovie

I recently purchased a Vivitar DVR. I want to edit my video on iMovie but when I try to import what I recorded it will not allow me to. Does anyone know why? Please help
P.S. the files are stored in .AVI format is that the reason....can i convert the format

Hi
and when I changed the location of where the video was saved it delited
How did You do this ?
What version of iMovie did You use ?
Basic rule is - DO NOT move or alter any folders named
• iMovie Events - or -
• iMovie Projects
on DeskTop/Finder - if done all connections are broken and this can be hard to impossibly to mend.
First step then is to move everything back and Hope that iMovie will find them again.
Moving Events and Projects must be done within the iMovie Application and the other Hard Disk MUST BE Mac OS extended (hfs) formatted.
UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange - works for most BUT NOT FOR VIDEO - no matter if iMovie, iDVD or FinalCut is used.
A FireWire hard disk works best to me - as USB/USB2 performs badly to me.
Yours Bengt W

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