^-- see above... i absolutely abhor quicktime, and i can't stand installing it, but i have a few funny clips, and some shorts and movie trailers that i can only find in .mov format (like the whalebomb ...
Yeah, if you want it to play nice with iMovie, use VirtualDub as Wudan suggested, and transcode to standard DV, or something that iMovie will let you edit easily. Don't try to transcode your files a ...