Iphoto albums into imovie?!

Hello, wonder if someone can help me please? I've been trying to make a little movie intro following the guides here; http://www.alienryderflex.com/crawl/
Its a programme that allows you to create your own 20th century fox intro. Pretty cool!
Anyway, what the programme does is to make a load of .bmp images that you then need to make into a movie scene. The tutorial suggests initially to use Quicktime 7 pro for this, but I only have normal quicktime so I tried to follow another tutorial on how to do the same thing in imovie. Now the tutorial has been written for imovie hd, and I have a brand new mac which just has normal imovie, I guess its 09, but I'm not sure how to find out (I'm a mac noob). Now if imovie hd supports this sort of thing I would have thought that this, a newer version would also?!
Basically, what is, or int happening, is that when I create my iphoto album, it just does not exist in imovie. I cannot get the images to display. I looked for help and apple support said I may need to install Quicktime 7 which I have but still no luck!
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

Hi Ron - welcome to the forum!
My guess is that you need to convert the .bmp images to a format that iMovie '09 understands. I just converted a jpeg image to Microsoft BMP using Preview (File>Save As). The .bmp image would not import to iMovie, but the original jpeg imported OK.
So, I think the answer is to convert the .bmp files to .jpeg files. Preview does this instantly, so it shouldn't take too long (hopefully). The only question I have is what impact this conversion may have on the final product - in fact, will the program work with jpegs, rather than the bmp files?
Give it a try! Hope it works for you - I might even have to try it at some stage. It looks very cool.
John

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