Importing pre edited movies

I have been importing my DV camera footage from the past few years into iMovie 11. These have all impoted just fine. However, when I come to import a previously finished edited movie (project) that has been saved back to DV tape, iMovie seems to split up the edit into individual events. This only seems to happen where the date of the original footage differs. ie. if all the original material was shot on the same day, the movie will import OK. If not, then it will break up the movie. Also a great deal of audio noise will be added to the clips identified from the differing timestamp.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks.

Yes, there are all kinds of tools to extract audio from the various movie formats out there.
Because of the differing way audio is handling in the different movie containers and file types, I find it's usually far easier just to use Audio Hijack Pro and record the audio output of whatever player is playing back the movie into a regular audio file.

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issac
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