Downloading Video from a digital camera

I am trying to download a video from a digital camera, and iPhoto is not allowing it to, with no reason given. Does anyone know of an upgrade or a program where i can download the video?
Thanks

Welcome to macbook forum
You should use iMovie instead of iPhoto.
And if you only have usb port and no firewire port in your camera, you must use iMovie 7 from iLife '08 that allowed tapeless camera / camcorder video file imported to your mac.
You can also browse the camera storage media and drag the video file to your HD or desktop using the camera usb connection (it should pop up as white drive at desktop) or using usb card reader.
Good Luck.

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OK thanks I will try that. I just don't understand why I still can't download new videos as I've deleted the software I installed and I've changed my camera settings back to what they were before when I could download into iPhoto. I perhaps should have mentioned it's iPhoto '08 version 7.1.5. Is there any way of putting iPhoto back as the "default download and view" programme?
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1. You did not get an error message telling you that your iPhoto library was getting full. You got a message telling you that your HD was getting full, right?
OS X needs about 10 gigs of hard drive space for normal OS operations - things like virtual memory, temporary files and so on.
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Your Library has been damaged from being run on an overfull disk.
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