I movie and sony hdr-sr7

hi all
im having probs importing video from my sony hdr-sr7 camcorder into imovie..... i neva had this problem before i updated to the new version....
i movie sees the camera, starts to import it the shows a error message saying it couldnt improt all the movies, please check them"
any ideas?

I have iMovie8 and facing same problem. It worked few weeks back and now it wont even mount-cant see the disk in disk utility either? its connected to USB and set computer/disk/USB settings as needed on the SR7. I am not sure, i even stopped norton AV i loaded - not sure if i have to stop several applns that I probably loaded in past 3 weeks? I got 10.5.6. Any help is appreciated!!!

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