I Movie not importing from my Sony HDR HCI camera...why?

My HD camera is not importing into I movie. When I import, it records just fine and it shows a clip being recorded. When stop the import after 5 or 7 minutes, I MOVIE then shows a total clip of a few seconds up to a few minutes, but never the whole clip.
What is wrong?

Hi Bob
HD Cameras is not my thing But the import problems I got some ideas about:
- most common problem is wrong mix of Mac OS + iMovie version + QuickTime version.
I would use Mac OS X.4.8 + iMovie 6.0.3 + QuickTime 7.1.3
The amount of free space on Your internal hard disk (more than 20Gb +
space for the movie material) - and make Import to this.
Other programs working in the background can interfrere - then mainly FileVault
Turn this OFF!
Yours Bengt W

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1793
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