Won't allow video import?

A friend of mine sent me 3 movies from his iphone that I was going to stitch together with imovie, but I can't get them into imovie to do anything with them. Here's what I've tried:
1) Dragging them into the new media space
2) Dragging them over the imovie icon
3) Dragging them all over the screen, trying to see where they might drop
4) Opening a folder and trying to open them through imovie's import movie's function
5) dragged them into iphoto and tried to do open them that way
6) dragged them on to an external hard drive, erased them on the computer and tried to import them that way
7) Everything else I could think of.
Any suggestions? They're .mov files, so they should work fine, right?

They're .mov files, so they should work fine, right?
No. MOV is a file container -- not a compression format. iMovie '08 will only import what it can edit. For instance, a multiplexed MPEG-1 video is a "playback" only supported compression format but it can be placed in an MOV file container. Open the file in your QT Player and check the "Inspector" window to see what audio and video compression formats are involved. If either the audio or the video is incompatible with iMovie '08, then it will not import until it is converted to and "edit" compatible compression format.
As to "Drag 'n Drop" importation, video clips can only be dropped to event names in the Event Library list.

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