Moving mpg clips from iPhoto to iMovie

I have iMovie '08 on my MacBookPro. Months ago I took 6 short video clips with my Sony DSLR H1 camera and uploaded them by mistake to iPhoto where they reside as mpg files that open easily as Quicktime movies when I click on the image. I have tried to move these clips to iMovie by dragging them from iphoto, or exporting them, then saving them as files in Finder and exporting or dragging them. They never stay in the iMovie event library. I sometimes get a box that says the clips are not compatible with iMovie. Is there some trick I can use to get these clips into iMovie? Can I convert the clip format to make them compatible? I have since learned my lesson and uploaded clips from the camera directly to iMovie and though they are marginal in quality they did make it into the event library. Thanks for any advice you can offer.

Normally, there would be an "iPhoto" event in your event library and you can access the movie there.
If it is not there, or if you just want to move it to iMovie, I would recommend that you download MPEG Streamclip, which is free. Drag the mpg file into MPEG Streamclip. Then use FILE/EXPORT TO QUICKTIME to export the file as an Apple Intermediate Codec file in the original dimensions. After saving this file in a place you can find it, open iMovie and click FILE/IMPORT/FROM FILE.

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The MPEG1 compression format was not developed by Apple and does not share Apple's QT temporal synchronization technology. As such it (like MPEG2, Flash, and other third-party proprietary compression formats) is not "fully" supported by nor can it be edited in the QT structural environment. In this case, use an MPEG based third-party application like MPEG Streamclip (free), iSquint (free), Visual Hub ($$), etc. to convert your files to an intermediate compression format for editing in iMovie.
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Thanks for your interest.
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I created an action in Photoshop to flatten layers and save to JPEG, then ran an automated batch on all the TIFF images to create JPEGs.
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So I created a new movie from scratch and that seems to be working just fine. I feel like iMovie is such a waste of my time. I spent about 10 hours on my movie up to this point where I can be productive.
I notice some of the images have scratches I'd like to fix in Photoshop. What's the recommended way to do that? Can I keep effects or transitions and just re-apply them to an edited photo?
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There are a great difference on photos shown on a Mac with eg. iPhoto or
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to FW and analog to a TV. Select in pref - Play back via Camera. Now I see
the final quality on my TV. Usally much better.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2196
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Go to your Hotmail account on the web (NOT in mail), make a new folder (or folders) for the mail you want to keep and move the messages into it.
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Ah but it does work!
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