MPEG-2 Import: How?

Hi,
Googled a lot, but nothing helped. I have mpeg-2 movies from my digicam, which are already on disk. I don't want to convert them before importing into iMovie. I tried putting them on a disk image, but it did not work. How exactly can I import mpeg-2?
TIA
Arne

If you have iMovie '08, then you can import the MPEG-2 files without using MPEG-Streamclip. You just have to trick iMovie. Grab a USB 2.0 external drive and create a folder called MP_Root in the root directory of that drive. Inside the MP_Root folder, create folder called 101PVN001. Place your MPEG-2 files inside that folder and change the extension to .MPG (if it isn't already). Then open iMovie '08 and it should recognize the drive as a camcorder and begin to generate thumbnails for the MPEG files it finds in the MP_Root > 101PVN001 directory.
If you googled this issue, you should have come across the following URL:
http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=77489

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