Canon HG10 Video Capture

I've purchased a Cannon HG10 HD Video camera, and cannot seem to get the hard drive to show up on my desktop in order to transfer my video from the camera to the computer. (USB 2.0 cable connection) I've done this before with a Sony Hard Drive camera, and it works fine.
I attach the USB cable, and the camera's HD image never shows up on the desktop. Does anyone have any idea what I might be doing wrong? I can't imagine that you simply cannot transfer video from Canon's latest model HD Camcorder to a macintosh.
Frustrated ... please help.
Thanks

I hope this helps. I purchased the HG10 today and was able to get it to work. I am running 10.5.2 that should now have support for the HG10. First make sure that your cam is in "player mode" next connect to your MAC. Once you do this you should see it mount as a external drive. If this happens open up iMovie and as soon as it loads it will say device detect and it should load with a preview with all your movies on your HG10. From there just select import and let it rip.
My only complaint is that I wish this cam was firewire because it will take some time to upload if you have a lot of content. A side not is the the cam will not be detected from iMovie HD which was the first application I tried it with assuming that this would work being the HG10 captures in HD but this is not the case.
Let me know how this works out for you....
S. Smoot

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