Captured video when played becomes a crazy complex pixel mess! HELP! ASAP!

Hey,
I am importing images that work fine and play on my camcorder (Canon ZR65) and play well when previewing during the capture process (or import process)...
However when I try to play the clips in either the timeline or the right hand side where they rest they are coming up with NO SOUND, NO PICTURE except for a pixelated mess of various different colored blocks, like when a television goes out or they do a warning test. I have used the same machine with the same camera for various other projects and have no idea what is going on. Could it be the camera? I did drop it but it seems fine as does the firewire cable? I'm getting a new camera soon....
Oh..and if no one can tell me why that is happening can anyone tell me if I can put a movie from Windows Movie Maker into an IDVD project? (Then I can just use my other computer instead....)
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Welcome to iMovie Discussions.
"..a pixelated mess of various different colored blocks.." sounds like the picture has become scrambled: those pixellated blocks are incomplete digital data which can't be properly presented as video because bits are missing.
It might be that this was recorded at LP (Long Play) speed, and there's some slight tracking problem, especially as it was dropped! LP recordings have a far narrower width of recorded track, and any slight fault in head alignment will produce "dropouts" - which you're seeing.
Some camcorders detect these dropouts during replay, and "fill the gaps" with data from the previous frame of movie, so it may look OK on the camcorder. But the actual data transmitted down the cable - but do check the cable on another Mac, or with another device instead of the camcorder - may have "holes" in it.
If it's not an LP tape, but just ordinary SP (Standard Play), try playing the same tape in another camcorder, and importing from that. Try another FireWire cable, too ..maybe that one has a fault. (..Maybe there's a faulty connection on the in-camera FireWire socket if it's been dropped..)
This pixellation often means that the camera's heads need cleaning (..with a cleaning tape..) but in that case you'd see the pixellation in the camera's viewfinder, too, so that's probably not the case here.
If there's another Mac handy, try importing to that with a different FireWire cable. If the result's the same, then it's a transmission-from-camera problem, and the cause could be:
(1) LP recording ..try to stick with SP
(2) Head misalignment after being dropped
(3) Bad connections in camera's FireWire socket, through being dropped
In those cases, try importing from a different camcorder, but that may also be a problem with an LP tape, or if the recording was made after the camera was dropped - and so the recording has been made with a misaligned head and may not play back properly in an uninjured camcorder.

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