Types of file recognized by iMovie

Hi I'm new to Mac and to video editing.
I'm trying to use iMovie9 to make a movie with the best scenes of some movies. here are the issues i've been facing:
1) when i try to load a movie dvd (original, like the ones we buy in a store) with .vob file, iMovie doesn't let me import it. Is that because it's a copyrighted dvd?
2) then I decided to use Windows Movie Maker on my other computer to extract the parts of the movies. It worked fine, but Movie Maker saves the files to .wmv format and Imovie also doesn't recognize this format. Is that it? Movie Maker only saves to .wmv? and Imovie doesn't recognize .wmv?
3) What should i do? How can I import original DVD files to Imovie? If it's not possible, what files are accepted by Imovie, so that I can find a software to convert the .wmv Movie Maker files to an Imovie accepted format? is .mov one of the accepted files?
thank you!

See my post [here for how to do it|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2255575]

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