Import MPEG2 Muxed from external hard drive

Hi there,
I am interested in the trick for iMovie 08.. I've updated from iMovie 05 HD and ready to import existing MPEG's from an external hard drive.
They are: MPEG2 Muxed
How do I trick iMovie to recognize and import these files?
Thanks
Deb

With a USB flash memory drive, or an external hard drive, create on it a folder named MP_ROOT, inside it create a folder named 101PNV01, now put your mpg-2 files in this folder. Have iMovie open; after creating these files and putting the mpeg2's on it, disconnect the drive from your computer, now, when you re-connect, is like connecting a camera, and with iMovie open already, it will tell you that you have connected a camera etc, etc, now import into iMovie 08.
I use this to import mpeg 2's.
Remember to create this at the root level, at the very highest level in your external hard drive or USB. I do not use a USB stick because my files are very large, I use a external hard drive, so if one does not work for you, try the other one, if you have both.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=5823783#5823783
Check out this thread, it explains this and other possibilities.

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