Camcorder that has good Quality in imovie 09

I have just purchased an imac OS X (10.5.6) 24 Inch screen with imovie 09. I bought a Panasonic SDR-H80 a HDD camcorder. Downloaded video and the picture quality was very bad!!!!!!! Anyone own and use a camcorder on this system that has good picture Quality???????????? Which one is it? Thank you

You should post your question in the iMovie forum where camcorder users are more likely to hang out.
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