Buying the right video camera

Hello everyone,
I work for a community centre in Montréal and we are looking for a video camera that would be fully compatible with our new iMac and iMovie.
We are basically filming kids participating in activities and then editing the footage.
From what I have been reading so far, it seems a camera which records images on a tape would be the best. We have a small JVC camera which records images on a hard drive and importing the images in iMovie is a bit complicated...
Would you have a suggestion for a small video camera ?
Thank you !
And Happy day !
Mathieu
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Welcome to discussions, Bembrops
iMovie runs on QuickTime. QuickTime 'sees'the timecode on your video. When it stops, QuickTime stops.
So, this sounds like a timecode prolem that is happening when you import.
Perhaps simply geting rid of the imovie perference files will help.
Close Imovie.
Then locate a file named com.apple.imovie.plist and get rid of it. Then empty the trash, run a permissions repair with disk utility and restart. That should do it. The files you need to delete are found in:
/Users/YourName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.imovie.plist
Also, Canon cameras don't always play nice with imovie. Especially if the camera is daisy-chained thru another firewire device. Having said this, I think I'd try a shorter Firewire cable.
(Even though your exact model isn't listed-it may still aply to you)
Macintosh: FireWire Issue With Some Canon Mini-DV Cameras
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61603
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