How to get my SD movies onto imovie??

I have a new canon camera and have been using it for movies as well as for photos. The clips seem to import to iphoto but, for the life of me, I can't get them into imovie to edit - either with a card reader or by transferring them from iphoto.
I am sure this topic has been covered, but I can't seem to find a relevant post. This camera does record in HD, which I have heard has problems, but I am not using the hd settings. How can I get my movies into imovie? Also, does it take up colossal amounts of room to store videos on a smaller hard drive ( my macbook is only 80 GB ) I wonder should I backing them up to an external drive right away, for storage purposes..? That is if I manage to actually import the video....
Is the card reader the problem? It is quite new and I have had no other problems using it with other devices. Many thanks....

have you read and watch the Tutorials..? :
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovie
iM is a bit.. iffy, when it comes to the definition, what a 'camera' is. historically, only tape based machines were a movie-camera. nowadays still-cams allow movin' images too..
but, as mentioned above: the intended workflow is: material from photo cameras (even when they move) => import via iPhoto; material from video cameras (even when they don't move.. ) => iMovie
when the import is done, you'll notice in all iLife apps the 'media browser' - in iM09, on the very right, the icon with a camera on.. click it, presto, all (incl. your 'videos') your iPhoto Library at hand for usage in iMovie.
watch this:
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/movies/imovie08.html#tutorial=otherimport
(about from midths of tutorial...)

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