Import in imovie9

Hello from france (excuse my english)
It seems I cannot import in imovie9 project from imovie4 ou imovie hd6 .. ? is it normal opr a problem with my files ?
what to do ( I know I can export from imovie 6 in dv and import in imovie 9 , but it is long and I cannot use imovie 6 with my emac .. ?)
Thank's for answer or idea
nb/ what about dvd files or avi for import in imov9 ?
Tank's and greetings from france

What is a compression format?
A compress format literally refers to the codec used to compress/make the file content. DV, AIC, Motion-JPEG, Photo-JPEG, MPEG-4, and H.264 are all video formats in which iMovie '08/'09 can edit "natively" (i.e., without having to change the video to a different compression format.) iMovie '08/'09 can any or all of these compression formats in a single project. Older iMovie applications normally edit in a single compression format. In HD, for instance, you could designate whether you wanted a DV project or an MPEG-4 project and any file not in the selected format would be converted to your "default" compression format for editing as part of the importing process. iMovie '08/'09 does not perform and conversions as it imports files at the "Finder" level. Camcorders, however, come in many different compression formats and, except for DV, none of them are currently compatible with iMovie editing as they come off the camcorder. Therefore, iMovie '08/'09 uses special importing routines that evaluate the incoming compression format and selects the proper way to deal with each. HDV and AVCHD, for instance, are converted to AIC video while multiplexed M2V/AC3 files are converted to an "all I-Frame" MPEG-2 format and the AC3 is converted to linear PCM which iMovie '08/'09 can edit. So the basic rule of thumb for file importation is, if iMovie can't edit it, it won't be imported. As for camcorders, if iMovie '08/'09 doesn't recognize it, it can't transcode and import it and it then falls to you, the user, to either make iMovie recognize the content or do the conversions yourself manually.

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great you like it, thanks for the flowers!
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