Imovie 5: won't import any files!!!!

please help! i'm about to have a baby and i just got all this stuff to record video of him and stuff like that. well, i tried out my imovie software and it won't import any files at all! i have .avi files from other sources and anytime i try to import them into imovie it unexpectedly crashes!! what do i do?!
thanks for your help!
ashley

Hi krypton - have a look here:
http://danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/tips_tricks/6018.shtml
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=232703&tstart=0
http://danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/tips_tricks/6010.shtml
http://www.moviecodec.com/topics/5155p2.html
but especially:
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/%7Eshmhav/SVCDon_a_Macintosh.html#edit_convertMPEG
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=267352&tstart=0
You may need both of these:
MPEG StreamClip:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/mpegstreamclip.html
Apple MPEG2 PlayBack:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2/
Doing a Search of the forum will produce many posts on this topic! Type someting like 'MPEG' into the search box.

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