Analog to Digital Passthrough with Sony

In all earlier versions of iMovie up to 4, I've been routinely putting our analog tapes directly into iMovie through our Sony camera (TRV330, a digital camera, but using our older Hi8 analog tapes from an older Sony). I read somewhere that ALL versions of iMovie after 4 no longer have that capability to allow analog signal pass through without an A/D convertor straight into iMovie. True or false? And, does anyone know about the dreaded iMovie8? Can it do that? Thanks.

Last year I used my TRV530 with iMovie HD '06 to digitize all my parents video, which was shot with an analog Sony Hi8 camcorder. It worked great, had no problems. So I think you should be able to do it with your 330 also.
On the other hand, I wasn't able to use the analog pass-through capability to capture video from the camera's analog inputs. So when grabbing stuff from an external video source (VCR, TiVo, etc), I had to do it in two steps: first record it on tape with the 530, and then import it off the tape into iMovie '06.
I don't have any way to test whether iMovie '08 can pull stuff off Hi8 tapes, since all my tapes are digital. I would be disappointed if it no longer worked, but with all the other things that were dropped in '08, I can't say I'd be completely surprised.
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