Image capture for Imovie

I'm looking for a tool to capture video from the net and allow me to edit
it in Imovie. I've heard about flip 4 Mac, and Quicktime pro but I haven't tried them 'cause I'm a bit jaded. I'm not opposed to spending a little $ if the solution really works.
And.....I was wondering about an audio microphone for Mac. In voiceover, the built-in mic produces a quasi-cheesy sound quality. Any suggestions?

I'm looking for a tool to capture video from the net and allow me to edit
it in Imovie.
... ehm, well not easy to answer... unluckily, there's no universal web-video format... actual counting: >4000 (read:fourthousand) codecs "available"…
sooo, what are the usual suspects?
* QTpro handles the most "usual" on the web and the latest, e.g. as h264…
* for conversion of mpegs WITHOUT loss of audio, you use the free tool Streamclip
* wmv is popular in the PC world, flip4mac handles that.. (mostly… there are many wmv-flavors…)
* divx/ 3vix / xvid … need additional plug-ins..
* to convert .flv (as on youtube.com), you could use for free iSquint
* … for some other you get plug-ins....
… if no plug-in work, Plan B) is a screen recorder as SnapzPro , but tricky to handle, because you never "catch" the right size => another conversion step => loss of pic quality…-
I would still have to convert any clips to a format compatible with IMovie? What format is that?
sure, iMovie is no all-purpose-all-kind-of-file-edit app... , iMovie is a video edit app meant to work with firewire connected miniDV camcorders, so any content HAS to be "dv"…
sorry for long post, but video from the net is no trivial issue...
helpful?

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