Avoid losing clips when importing HD video to Imovie 5

Be aware that if you stop importing a HD video before the import is completed, and then restart the import without adjusting the tape on your video camera, you could lose some video clips.
I was importing a one hour video and stopped and restarted the import once.
Upon completion of the import I realised that I was short 36 clips worth 16 minutes of video.
This was probably caused by the HD import lag between the camera running a normal speed and Imovie HD running at a slower speed. When I stopped the import my camera was running 16 minutes ahead of Imovie. When I restarted the import, Imovie restarted importing at the point where the video head had stopped on the video camera. The 16 minutes held somewhere in a "buffer" were lost.
Since I identified the problem in time, I did not have any problems recovering the lost data from the original HD tape.

Wow-that is good to know.
Thank you for posting.
Sue

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