IDVD won't capture "OneStep" footage

I was using iDVD to transfer my footage onto DVD's. I had done 3 one hour tapes and it worked fine. Today when I went to transfer it stopped capturing video at 12 minutes into the tape and made me a DVD with only 12 minutes of footage on it. I tried to run it again and it stoped capturing at 10 minutes. I stopped it and started again and it captured only two minutes. It now will not capture at all an it says "no video has been captured. Aborting OneStep DVD creation". I am shooting with a Canon XL2 that is only 3 months old. My imac will be 2 years old in September. This is the first time I even used the iDVD program. I usually use Final Cut Pro 5 for logging. I could use some help figuring out what is not working with this program. thank you. [email protected]

Just to add to the Len's good advice.... and after confirming you have at least 20GB's of available HD space, look for the following item/s.
com.apple.iDvd.plist
Just copy & paste the above item in bold directly to the Finder (happy face on the dock), hit return, and then drag this item/s to the trash. Empty the trash.
Now connect you camcorder to your iMac via firewire cable.
Power up the camcorder and cue the tape to the approximate start point (manually). Keep the camcorder powered up.
Now launch iDVD6. And try the One step process again thru iDVD. It should work.
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