Problems importing Mpeg 4 files form a Toshiba Camileo Pro into iMovie

Can anyone advise on what I should do. I have purchased a Toshiba Camileo Pro HD. I can import the clips into iPhoto and play them in Quicktime 7.5.
iMovie recognises the camera and can create and play thumbnails of the clips.
However iMovie does not import the clips, giving an error message. Nether can it 'see' the clips in iPhoto.
Any suggestions would be welcome

After looking through Wikipedia I have found the cause of the problem. to quote
"This is limited however by an undocumented restriction on supported codecs. iPhoto uses the QuickTime library and can create thumbnails for all QuickTime supported formats, but most of these cannot be used by iMovie '08. Indeed, even some of the very few formats that iMovie '08 is able to import will not be recognized when they are added to an iPhoto library."
So it seems that I will not be able to use iMovie after all for my camcorder HD video!
Can anyone suggest an (affordable) application that will do what iMovie does?

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