Importing DV into an HD movie file

I am making a photo montage for my grandson. I have used the HD choice so that the images imported from I photo have a better resolution and I have good control over the music. I would like to add about 30 seconds of video. My video camera is just DV, no HD. When I try to import it into my HD movie it won't accept it. Is there a way that this can be done? thanks, Dr. Steve

Brian is right..
just made a quick test:
created a 1080i HiDef project
imported a 'dv-stream' SD file (.dv), the file gets into the clip pane, added with black borders left/right and I'm able to add it to the timeline of the HiDef project ..
so, import from your camera to a SD/NTSC project, Export/Quicktime/dv-stream, import THAT file to your HiDef project..

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