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For those who don't want to spend extra time importing DV files, I offer the following technique which I deduced, tested and find very useful.
I recently developed a very simple technique for getting DV clips into an iMovie06 project without importing them directly. First, I transform the clip, whatever the underlying codec, into DV and name the DV files in the order I want them to appear. (Use of free MPEG Streamclip is recommended)
Then I create an iMovie06 project with the correct aspect ratio (4x3 or 16x9). Then I save and close the project in the same folder as the DV files.
Then in Finder I right-click the iMovie06 project and use "show package contents" to reveal the contents of the project.
I double click the Media folder and then select and drag all of the clips into the Media folder.
Then I double click on the iMovie project. When it opens, it will announce that there are items in the trash. Those items are the clips which were just added to the folder prior to opening the project.
Open the trash and systematically drag each clip into the clip menu spots in the sequence in which you wish to view them. Save the project and close the empty trash.
The project is ready for further editing.
This saves a great deal of time and seems to improve the video quality by avoiding a lengthy, second import process.
Cheers.

Yes, I have been using this with any longer import:
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/iMovieHD_6_bugs.html#quick_DVimport
Just remember to take care that the .dv clip you are dropping in the Media folder is REALLY a plain DV stream .dv clip and that it is of the same video standard (PAL/NTSC) as the iMovie project.
Some gotchas: iMovie HD 6 accepts even DV-encoded .mov files or wrong video standard .dv clips straight to its Media folder, but adding titles to such clips produces colorful artifacts to the rendered clip. Also notice that iMovie 4's Full Quality DV export preset exports a file with the .dv suffix but it is, in fact, a DV-encoded .mov if the source iMovie 4 project has chapters in it (this is not an issue with iMovie HD's Full Quality DV export anymore).

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