Movie import

I going to buy a new camera and you can take a 3min movies with it what I wanted to know is if i can import the 3 min movie into imove and use it to make a bigger movie with it

jerzee boy,
What camera are you looking at? Is it a still camera?
Many still cameras that can also take little movies are able to import those little movies along with stills right into iPhoto. From there you can access them in iMovie's media browser.
But, I'm not sure when these feature were added to iPhoto and iMovie though. They may not have been there in iLife '04.
In that case you may be able to do what I used to do with the little movies I shot with my Fuji FinePix A203 in the old days.
I would plug my camera in with USB and then open it in the Finder as if it were a hard drive and drag the AVI movie files to the desktop. I then used QuickTime Pro to convert them to DV that iMovie would recognize.
Matt

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I'm an old school filmmaker who last did intensive stuff when miniDV was king
Now I find myself at a new job shooting and editing testimonials. Everything was fine for a whole year until I tried to import video from another videographer.
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*http://mozilla.github.com/process-releases/draft/development_specifics/

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+Should I maintain my event library in .dv format? (and bite the bullet on the storage)+
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