IMovie wont recognize my format??

quick question, I'm trying to make a dvd of in-car race footage. The video camera saves the video in a .mpg format. iMovie will not let me import any of the files because it says that quicktime cannot "Parse" it..... if i download the "QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component for Mac OS X" will that allow me to import the files to iMovie? and allow me to edit the footage?

Yes.
For that you need mpegStreamclip:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/mpegstreamclip.html
which is free, but you must also have the Apple mpeg2 plugin :
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2/
which is a mere $20.

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