Problem with .AVIs in iMovie 08

Hey everyone, I have 8 720p movies which really aren't that long, totaling around 350mb. I tried to import these into iMovie 08, however it never seems to work as the event I import them into always says there is nothing in the event.

The videos always copy across though, because after looking through the Movies folder I found them in the iMovie 08 events folder. I'm assuming this is a problem which occurs when iMovie attempts to generate thumbnails, but I'm not sure.

If anyone knows a fix to this problem please help me out, as I would rather use iMovie 08 to edit them together than 06. Thanks!

 

Nope, not a tv show. Just some video I took when I went on holiday last month. I never knew iMovie didn't support .avi, it let me import them "even if it didn't work".

If it doesn't support them, anyone know where I can find a converter to convert them into .movs? I don't really need to keep the HD, I'll only be uploading it to youtube. Thanks again!

 

Seems like iMovie doesn't like .AVIs... I used iSquint to convert them to .mp4s, and although the quality isn't as great, it's still fine for youtube. I'll find a better way to do this next time I'm in this problem. Thanks everyone for your help.

 

All the videos played fine in Quicktime, and I do have Perian installed.