New to iMovie - some basic issues

OK, just loaded for the first time iMovie '08 this past weekend and I have a number of old movies that were digitized and saved in an Mpeg format. When I go to assemble an iMovie, I go to select the media, I can see all the files there, but they are light grey and seemingly inaccessible. So, I tried saving them to desktop, or downloading straight from DVD or pulling them off of the file, but no way could I access them. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Would appreciate a little advice from the professionals out there,
Thanks,
Terry

The Codec would appear to be MPEG2. MPEG2 is not an editable format, but you can use a third party tool to convert it into an editable format.
Tools you might consider are MPEG Streamclip, iSquint, or Visual Hub. With MPEG Streamclip, you must purchase the Quicktime MPEG2 Playback component, but it is possible that you already have this, since you were able to play your movie in Quicktime.
Convert your MPEG2 movie to either DV, AIC, h.264, or MPEG4. Then you should be able to import it and edit it in iMovie.

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