Hard Drive Cameras and Imovie

I recently had to buy a camera out of urgency as I was on vacation and mine broke and saw the Sony models that use a hard drive instead of tapes or dvd. I became quite interested in them but the lack of information regarding Imovie made go with another mini dv camera. I'm still interested in buying a hard drive camera so my question is, if and how to transfer the files from the camera to imovie. I understand but I'm not sure the movie files are in mpeg 2.
Mike

rumors are not allowed here, but...
firewire connected devices allow iM to "share"/export processed projects - that is actual the ONLY way to store HiDef content in HiDefquality on some delivery media...
BluRay isn't natively supported (yet) by Apple, even ProMacs lack of a BluRay Superdrive II ...
and, usb2 connected devices need model-specific drivers.. the manufacturer don't support a standard protocol (yet), "drivers" are outside Apple's mantra "simple&convenient"...
so, as long as we don't have a delivery-media for HiDef, OR a harddrive-corder standard, I would say ..... :-/ ???
next keynote: 6th Jan '07 ....
and
Thanks for The Big Green One..

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I have never had a problem as you mention in the 8 years I have been using mini-dv tapes in dvcpro vt players, the only problem I have had is with JVC cassettes, snapping and needing to be spliced, here in South Africa we tend to use SONY/PANASONIC tapestock.
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