Importing Cell Phone Video Footage

I am doing a test of importing a short video clip from my Android cell phone into iMovie. I took the video clip using the Camcorder app and emailed it to myself. Then I downloaded it and it downloaded as a .3gp format file. I cannot get this file into iMovie. Apparently the format is not accepted. What do I do now?
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Thank you. I will try this.
Now if I were to receive short video clips from a few different countries, would MPEG Streamclip be able to convert all the clips? I don't know what the video formats are for other countries but I need to be able to convert them so I can get them into iMovie.

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