The developers of Perian, the free and extremely popular video format extender for QuickTime, have announced that they are ceasing work on the project. In a statement on the project’s Web site, the ...

Apple developed the MOV file format to store digital video that was especially encoded to stream through the company's proprietary media player, QuickTime. As a digital video, MOV files can be shared ...

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 ...