Video imports as only 1 frame

I recorded a video on my digital camera and uploaded it to my computer. I wanted to add images into the movie and control the duration of how long the image is displayed before the movie continues. I tried to upload the video into imovie but it only has 1 frame, the entire movie. I tried to convert the movie to DV, it still didn't work. Is there anyway to take that one frame and seperate it into several frames so I can add images to my movie and adjust the duration time the images display?
Thanks in advance!

Is it a MPEG clip you are trying to import?? If yes, then maybe there are timecode breaks that must be fixed before you can handle the whole video. Fix the timecode breaks with MPEG Streamclip and export as .dv, then import to iMovie. See also:
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/SVCDon_a_Macintosh.html#edit_convertMPEG

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