Canon DC10 DVD Camcorder - compatible w/iMac?

Am a newbie to iMovie and the world of DVD Camcorders - the one I just got is a Canon DC10 mini-DV, and the manual states that one can only download still images to Mac. I suspect that if I can get the video into the Mac, I can use iMovie to edit, etc. Do I need to connect via firewire? Is this camcorder model even compatible w/Mac at all? (NOTE: Canon Customer Service unable to help me...)
thanks

DVD Camcorders always seem to cause problems and iMovie will only work from firewire.
Look at the thread http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=967074#967074
Karsten's posting might help but the whole thread will give you some useful information.

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Very good advices from Sue ! (Hi Sue !)
Karsten has collected it like this:
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http://danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/tips_tricks/6018.shtml
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welcome TeamIguana to the  board ...
you've done your research on this board about DVDcorders, so you do know, the iApps don't support such devices ... you miss the convenience of simply plug-in/hit import/done... and some others...
you have two options:
convert from dvd (please use the forum search for that popular issue), or, as you wrote, a playback-analoge-digital conversion...
the loss in pic quality happens while playback a dvd...- you record in a codec called mpeg2, which is a very, very effective compressor...- a standard iM project of 2h=~26GB gets compressed with mpeg2 to fit onto a 4.7Gb single-layer dvd-r...
to be so effective, mpeg uses different "tricks", e.g. it doesn't store every frame of the 30fps a video contains... dv (as on miniDV, or iM's native internal codec) does so... as you probably know: mpeg2 is a delivery format, no edit format...
so answer to 1): due to mpeg standards, you have a loss of pic quality. any miniDV would be ... better.- but it has to fullfill your tastes and standards, if it is ok to you.. just do it
ad 2) iMovie doesn't support the import via usb2.- when you're lucky, you get some Sony-made app with that device which allows to remotely control the corder via usb2 to force it to playback/stream the video to the Mac.. HardDrivecorders behave like some ordinary harddrive, easy to drag'n drop file from them to the Mac.. but a DVDcorder? even, when you hit manually "play"... how should your Mac know what to do with that stream of data coming via usb??
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