Importing AVI to iMovie

This animation project has given me a thousand and one "a-har" moments, I've stopped being perplexed.

SO how??? Here I am with scene 1 - 5 ready to for audio editing and the idiot just won't add the clips!

Turns out I will need to convert it to an older avi version for iMovie to recognise and import properly... Wokay...

Follow this instructions: http://www.helium.com/items/1255708-how-to-convert-video-for-imovie

Ok, the above doesn't work. And MPG2 video that's muxed will not import into iMovies either. WHaaaaaaaaaaaaat?

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1372


But I should use expert settings when exporting the movie:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=302197

I've totally given up on using iMovie now....