Canon vixia hf s 21 camcorder and imovie

I have  canon vixia hf s 21 camcorder, how do you down load into iMovie for editing?

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    Sheryl Kingstone wrote:
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    In a message dated 9/2/2011 1:14:09 P.M. Central Daylight Time, 
    [email protected] writes:
    First,  ensure that you have the latest version of Quicktime from Apple.com
    on your  system.
    Then ensure that, when you started your project, you  chose the settings
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    be that your  computer isn't powerful enough to work with AVCHD. Most people
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