Help IMPORTING VIDEOS

Just purchased an Imac in Sept. 09. I have all the latest versions of iPhoto and iMovie along with Snow Leopard. I have a Kodak easyshare digital camera that takes short video clips. iPhoto imports all of the pictures but is not importing the Videos. I opened iMovie and clicked File, Import from Camera, and it says No Camera Detected.
I use Image Capture and the programs times out when it gets to the videos.
Why is neither iMovie or iPhoto working with the Kodak Camera?

how do i convert it?
I prefer the combination of MPEG Streamclip (free) plus the QT MPEG-2 Playback component ($20 download from Apple).
Assuming your DVDs are unencrypted, simply copy the non-zero VOB Title set(s) from your DVD to your hard drive for fastest access by the application. Then either "drag 'n drop" the title set to the application (or use the import files to select and import the VOB files as a set). If the application suggests fixing timecode breaks, allow it to do so. Spot check the content to ensure the content you want is properly queued. If only extracting/converting a portion of the content, set "in" and "out" points using the "I" and "O" keys to select the exact frame you wish to start with and the frame at which you want to terminate your segment. If you wish to make any changes to the brightness, contrast, saturation, volume, crop, scale, etc. the content, enter your settings. Once satisfied, select the compression format in which you wish to natively edit (DV, AIC, M-JPEG, Photo-JPEG, MPEG-4, or H.264 for editing in iMovie '08) and begin your export. Repeat this operation until you have all the "highlights" you wish to use and import them into whichever editor you plan to use. (If you plan to export the edited content to tape, you will probably want to use iMovie HD or Final Cut for editing with DV or AIC/AIFF as targeted editing format.)

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