Nikon D 90 video and FCE

Does anyone work with a Nikon D90, the video must be bought in via USB. I bring it in to imovie, save it as a quicktime, and/or .mov, then I can import it into FCE. Is this the only way to get video from the D90 into FCE? thank you joanlvh

After a little more experiementing I am now able to bring clips in to imovie via USB and drag and drop tthe clips into FCE, that is a little better. the clips are .dv. I would of course like to bring them directly from the D90 to FCE. thanks for replying and Tom W I really appreciate "FCE 4"

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