IMovie"11 cannot play AVI created with Sony PlayMemoryHome

As I cannot make my Sony PCR-DC110 recognized on the Firewire port of my brand new iMac 21"5 (purchased last week, plus purchased Thunderbolt to Firewire 800 adapter, plus purchased a 6-pin to 4-pin Firewire cable), I have captured many of my mini DV tapes on Sony Play Memory Home into a AVI file format.
1. iMovie 11 does not recognize this AVI file format, any clue ?
2. Is there a software able to convert from this AVI to an AVI understandable by iMovie ?
Thanks

Will your videos play in Quicktime 10 (the version in Mavericks)? If yes, but after automatic conversion I think you can save the converted file and this will most likely be importable into iMovie.
If not there are lots of free and paid conversion apps. I use the free MediaConverter a lot (http://media-converter.sourceforge.net)
The free app VideoSpec (http://videospec.free.fr/english/) will show you the detailed format of your videos
Its a matter of trying out various formats until you find one that works - Unfortunately I have not seen a clear list of formats that are supported by iMovie 10.
Geoff.

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