Quicktime file open problem: preventing a masterpiece debut movie!!!

Hi all,
I am trying to edit some video footage I shot with a Sony miniDV Camcorder some time back. Part of the reason I bought my first mac (20" iMac duo intel) was to be able to make a short movie from this footage which I could never do on my old, tired rubbish PC. Imagine my disappointment when I tried to open the files with iMovie and they didn't open, just got an error message.
The files are listed as XXXX.mpg and they have size (multiple GB each). Also I downloaded VLC and they play fine in that. But I really want to get them into the Apple movie making software. It appears, if they can't play in Quicktime, they can't be edited in iMovie.
Originally, I used a PC Software package called "Ulead Videostudio 8", to get the files off the camera and into mpg format. Thats the only other background I have....
Can anybody please help! (Its such great footage too, was a charity sponsored classic mini rally around Europe and ending up in Italy, called (surprisingly!) "The Italian Job".
BUT it was in 2004! Help me realise my dream of a fantastic 10minute movie to impress my friends and family!!!
Thanks, Chris

I originally got the film off the camera via Firewire using VideoStudio 8 (one of the few pieces of affordable software I could find on the PC that would read the Sony's file format). I then saved it into its current form using this software.A bit of information that was too important to leave out. In any case, the DV compression format is more or less the standard for editing at the "frame level" on a computer. Any of the usual Mac editors will capture your DV data from your camera via FireWire from within the application.
This of course, brings up another question. Do you still have the original tape? If so, then the best approach would be to re-import the data directly to editor. This would, of course, reduce the loos of quality associated with your previous conversion to the more "lossy" MPEG format, as well as, any additional loss in having to convert back to a "native editing" format and then on to your delivery/distribution format for the final product.
If you don't have the original tape, then you would have to go the conversion route to do any major amount of precision editing and this brings up a secondary question -- When you say "MPG" here, are you referring to MPG as MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 files? Files produced on PC platforms often use MPG as a general extension for any MPEG-1/2 audio and/or video format combination. If the files are MPEG-1 A/V, then the MPEG-2 component is not required for MPEG Streamclip but your quality will have just taken another hit due to the conversion workflow.

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