Getting Adobe Premiere movie (on a PC) into iMovie

I've tried a couple of things, neither of which really worked well. I have about 10 movies I created in Premiere back when I had a PC (yuck!). I'd like to get the movies into iMovie so I can work on them more and take clips from them for other movies. Here's the two things I've tried and the problems with both.
First I took out all of the transitions and titles in Premiere. I then exported the movie to a DV tape. When I imported the movie into iMovie, it didn't recognize scene breaks, so it loaded the entire movie as one clip. I did set the option in iMovie to break scenes into clips. Anybody know if there is something special I need to do in Premiere to have them output as separate clips? Anything in iMovie?
The second thing I did was just copy over the clips to my Mac. Of course I now have all of the clips, but now I don't know what order they were in.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Kathy

I just can answer the iM related part of your Qs..
the scene detection works on the interruption of the Timecode, recorded on tape... (every frame on tape has a specific "time/date stamp", called Timecode)
when exporting a project to tape, these original TC gets lost... now, it is a single solid clip with a TC of the actual transfer, not when the parts were recorded... therefore, no scene detection, no clips, just one...
I have NO clue, wether Premiere on a PC is able to transfer clips WITH original TC to a normal camcorder... my, guess, NO computer can override the TCgenerator of a consumer camcorder....
but, you do know that -T command in iM? that "cuts"/divides a clip... even on fly... if you have speedy fingers....

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