How do i get my videos onto imovie?

to edit them??? do i need to change the format... how? how can i get videos from my camcorder onto the computer, or photobooth onto imovie?

Ok so you can get the DVD onto your computer through various methods. Handbrake, MPEG Streamclip are good choices
If you want to further edit them then I would suggest encoding with H.264, MPEG-4 seems to work with iMovie.
If you have the source footage that is ultimately recommended if you are going to edit as the content ripped off the DVD will be compressed

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