Putting Camera clips into iMovie

I have captured some clips with my Sony digital camera (PC-100)and imported them into iPhoto. I can export these clips into Quicktime and play it in the QT player with sound. The clips are in MPEG 1 format.
However, I am not able to import these QT movies into iMovie with the sound intact. The video is imported but the sound is gone. How do I preserve the sound from these MPEG 1 clips?
I have QT 7 Pro but it does not show having an audio track!?
Thanks for anyone's help.

Thanks Sue and you all for the info.
Yes, I did catch the MPEG2 part and did not purchase the software...maybe later when I need it (to play back or incorporate clips recorded in a stand alone video recorder? or DVD!) The free program Streamclips worked great...both on a PC as well as on the Mac. I have successfully made movies out of the camera clips with sound.
I can do it in either one of two ways. The fastest way was just to extract out the sound as an AIFF file and imported that into the soundtrack in iMovie. Curiously, the AIFF sound track was one frame shorter than the video clip but that did not affect the final result of the movie.
Another way was to use Streamclip to convert the MPEG1 file to a DV file and then import the DV file into iMovie. I chose the first way because the clips were already in iMovie and extracting the sound was faster then exporting / importing video. Besides, a DV video file was about ten times bigger than the original camera clip but the AIFF file was quite small.
So the project was a success. Thanks for the help.

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