Weird dv files

I recently reinstalled my computer and had to move two captured movie files around. They were captured on another computer via Final Cut Pro and had no extension, but they did have QT icons. I guess they were .dv files.
I remember importing them into iMovie HD and cutting them into a series of clips. Then, still everything was complete.
After the reinstallation, I only have two files left that resemble the original capture files. The size and length match the original files exactly. However I vaguely remember extracting them out of the iMovie project file via 'Show Package Contents' for some reason.
These remaining files are incomplete. They do run 23 minutes, but within that time they just repeat the same clips over and over again, with the black frames in between the clips which I'm positive to have removed. I think I lost about two third of the data.
Aditionally, Finder does not display the movies in column view. It only shows an audio bar that does not expand. When I click play, my keyboard ceases to respond (this seems to be an OS X bug induced by displaying unrecognized content in column view: I also experienced it with rar-files). Before I installed iMovie HD, using only the iMovie that came with Tiger, Finder and Quicktime both gave a dialog that read something like "Checking for movie content" before being able to open any of the files.
Why these weird reactions? Why am I missing data? Doesn't iMovie store the original capture files, even after trimming movie data into clips? I would appreciate your help.

Apparently After Effects changed the way it imports AVI files and all they could do for Cineform is suggest that Cineform change the file extension to something else other than AVI.
One solution is to remove (hide elsewhere) two new files from the C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CS3\Support Files\(Media Core plug-ins)\en_us directory.
They are ImporterDirectShow.prm and ImporterAVI.prm
Then, download this file which has two registry changes. The "On" file allows you to use a different importer, and the "Off" file needs to be run and the two files restored if you need to import DV AVI files. Just extract and put the two files in a directory where you can remember to turn the Cineform importer on and off. I suggest putting them in the same directory where you are hiding the other two files. Copy the two files back, turn off the importer. Delete the two files and turn on the importer. Simple enough, if irritating.
I expect that Cineform will find a way around this eventually.
http://www.stevengotz.com/files/AspectHD_AEImporterControl.zip

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