Exporting to sony 360 handycam

Imovie 3.03 won't export to my sony handycam. Loses contact with the camera. Works well otherwise. Is imovie 3.03 completely compatible with os10.45?

Hi Ham:
Welcome to discussions.
iMovie: Cannot see or control camera
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=43000
Start there and do everything it suggests (and don't forget to open all of the links in the article).
Then come back and let me know if it worked.
Sue

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Since Kirk told him/her July 25th what to do, I'd suggest doing that.
To the OP: (long gone no doubt) Buy the MPEG-2 Apple playback component, and MPEG Streamclip (free) open the clips and export to DV and use DV clips if you want edit the video.
$30 for the MPEG-2 and the rest is gratis. MPEG Streamclip is fine with Dolby 5.1 audio and will export to DV with a proper (audible) audio codec .
If you want MPEG-4 for say iPod or Apple TV you can edit , e.g. clip out the junk and export right to MPEG-4 from Streamclip as well. You need the MPEG-2 component since MPEG-2 is licensed and Streamclip needs it to decode the original.
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