Which Software to convert video

I'm a high school teacher w/ a Mac lab where students are beginning to do iMovie projects for the first time. I'm learning as they're learning. They're trying to incorporate LEGAL videos off various sites (like SchoolTube), needing to convert them to a compatible format, and we're simply getting lost at this stage. They're using web-based stuff, like VIxy, but we don't really know what we're doing. What legitimate software application - very user friendly - do we need? Whenever I ask someone, they assume that I want to get video off purchased DVD's, and that's not the case. What I need to know is how do I convert legal video clips into an iMovie format.
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Try using MPEG Streamclip to convert the video.
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