Ripped Home Movies to iMovie - a question and/or advice

Ok, let me tell you what I am doing here. I am ripping all of my home movies that are on DVD to my Mac via MacTheRipper. If there is a better way let me know but that is what I am doing at this point.
Once I have the ripped DVDs in my DVD Home Movies folder I would like to import them into iMovie so I can edit them, insert chapters, etc. but I am unable to do this as the files won't import in or I am going about it the wrong way.
The home movies that I have ripped are basically ones that were backed up onto DVD from a standalone DVD player a couple years ago and all I have left are the DVDs of this.
So, what can I do to get these files imported into iMovie for editing?

Hi Freis - you need to look here first:
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/%7Eshmhav/SVCDon_a_Macintosh.html#edit_convertMPEG
You will need:
MPEG StreamClip (free):
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/mpegstreamclip.html
Apple MPEG2 PlayBack ($20):
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2/

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