Question On iMovie Importing

Alright. So, I am a little confused about iMovie. Lets say I have a large video, but its in .avi form. I open up iMovie, but what is the difference if its opened up as MPEG-4 or other types? Because if I want to import a large file thats an Mp4 it still takes a long time, and there lies my question. Why does it take so long to import a video clip into iMovie? I want to import a video clip thats lets say 700 mbs and it takes a good 3 hours. My machine isn't the problem, i know that, its a pretty new iMac G5 with 1.5GBs of RAM. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a specific way of importing video clips so that it flies by? Or is it that iMovie was intended for video camera use and imports files that way much quicker? I am just very confused and if anyone can help me in any of these categories or just explain everything they know about iMovie I would be very happy. Thank you.

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