IMOVIE08 MPEG PROBLEMS, Not Importing movies from ilife

Hi
A friend shoots a movie for me We agree on an MPEG file. MPEG file loaded, IMOVIE08 started. Dragging media does not work. Also Importing movie via menu does not work. (MPEG file greyed in file dialog) But, Quicktime loads and shows it. With Quicktime I could maybe onvert it. IMOVIE07 loads it and shows it and you can work with it in IMOVIE07! So why not in IMOVIE08 which I bought for hard cash!
Using IPHOTO08 I made a movie out of still pictures with some music. Standard functionality in IPHOTO08 Wanted to edit the Audio. Cannot load the movie generated by IPHOTO08 into IMOVIE08. Hmmm.
However an movie generated from a KEYNOTE08 presentation does import into IMOVIE08.
Why is there no compatibility even between parts of the same package on this ?
Why with IMOVIE07 I could import almost anything and then IMOVIE08 is very sensitive to imports and imports almost nothing??
I find this really a serious flaw in IMOVIE08. And when I cannot use my old material what good is it?
Joost (mail me at joostb AT notthefly.com)

Welcome to the Discussion Forum
im6 would only edit limited formats but would import and convert various types of format to the type it could edit in.
By contrast im08 can edit more formats but no longer imports the formats that it can't edit, leaving you to convert the files to an appropriate format yourself before importing.
You can use many 3rd party applications to convert mpeg1/2 files, myself I use mpeg streamclip.

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