Cannot import from Canon Digital Camera

I've recently bought a Canon SX20IS and it has HD video recording capability.
I've recorded several videos and I cannot import the videos. I've tried importing it manually (from wherever I've saved it, be it: iPhoto, my documents, etc). The videos are saved as .mov files and can play easily in Quicktime. They also save into the iPhoto library easily enough.
iMovie begins to imports. Starting (everytime) importing fast, 3 minutes...2 minutes... then it slows down when it reaches the 1/4 done mark and starts going up (i.e.) 3 minutes... 4 minutes... 7 minutes...30 minutes... 47 minutes... about an hour... 2 hours... and I've left in on several occasions for more than an hour and yet it's still in the same place. When I force quit the application, there seems to be no "not responding" message correlating to iMovie. So I do not understand why it can't import it.
An example of what I've been trying to import is a 2minute 45 second long clip, 485.3MB
PLEASE help, it's driving me INSANE!
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ANGIOMAN wrote:
I was directly connecting the camera via cable. My work around was to download with Canon Utilities, then I imported the RAW files from the hard disk into AP. Temporary solution as best!
I don't believe this to be a "temporary solution" at all. I do this routinely, except that I use Bridge for doing the download/import. I then import the files to Aperture. The up side, in my mind, is that I now have 2 copies of each image, in two different places and I always know where the original is.
Come on APPLE!
I think there are lots of other issues Apple could improve. For instance, making it easy to re-save an image once edited in Photoshop back to Aperture.
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Every camera shoots RAW - that's the total information that the sensor on the camera sees, but mid- and lower end cameras process this RAW data into an easy to use format such as jpegs.
Many (but not all) Pros demand that the camera provide all the data to the computer, so that the photographer can process the images him/her self. For most casual and family users this is not an issue. For the serious hobbyist and the Pro it might well be.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rawimageformat
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