Trouble retreiving clips from trash

I just bought my first Mac last week so I'm a bit new to this so please bear with me. I was trying to import clips from a CDR and before it was done iMovie closed on me and the 2 clips that already were imported went to my trash. But my problem is that I can't seem to get it out of the trash and back into my clips section. What am I missing? Any help is appreciated.
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hi cris - AVI is just a container - you need to find out what format the file is. You may be able to do this in QT Pro - Window>Show Movie Info. If they are MPEG you will need to convert them:
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/%7Eshmhav/SVCDon_a_Macintosh.html#edit_convertMPEG
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=267352&tstart=0
MPEG StreamClip:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/mpegstreamclip.html
Apple MPEG2 PlayBack:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2/

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