Best way to bring clips over from iMovie?

Greetings,
I’m stuck with iMovie as my only way to capture from my camcorder; it or my Firewire jacks or something’s gotten flaky and only iMovie will see the camera. SO...any thoughts on the least painful way to bring the clips into FCP6? Got FCEHD, too, which I’ve been using so far, but I want to use FCP...
Thanks for any ideas!
dc

Last night I finally upgraded my G5 to 10.4.6 and since then, I have not been able to get Final Cut Studio 1, Final Cut Express OR Final Cut Pro 3 to "see" my camcorder which it did quite well before I upgraded my system software. FCP will control the camera but when I click on capture, it says no device is selected. When I go to AV Setup it shows my firewire as missing.
The problem isn't the firewire cable or my Canon camcorder. There is obviously a conflict between 10.4.6 (and higher) and Final Cut. But that problem only seems to hold true when you have FCP installed and THEN upgrade your system software. At work I have a new computer already loaded with 10.4.10. I loaded Final Cut Studio 2 on it and have no problems. Thank goodness the problem is here at home and not at work!
I have tried trashing Final Cut (preferences, application, and receipts) and reinstalling. No good. I'm going to try trashing QuickTime and reinstalling and see if that works. If not, then I don't know what to do.
We shouldn't have to import through iMovie. There is obviously a bug between OS 10 and FCP that Apple needs to find and correct. Please!!!! Or at least help us find a work around.

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