Datavideo dac-100 and iMovie?

I am planning to buy a datavideo dac-100 dv converter (or something similar) to digitalize analogue videotapes, but before I do I want to make sure that it will be recognized by iMovie for importing.
Any advice?

I have tried putting that into each channel but I'm not sure I've tried putting it in both at once. I think I did use a stereo input at one time, but not lately.
It seems as there is something wrong with the audio cables. At least, that's the most probably cause.
Thanks for the welcome, I'm not sure why my posts got set back to 0 but I'm not all that new.
Oops. Sorry about that. (The discussion shows number of posts currently online until Apple got everything sorted out.)

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