Imovie 08 and the sony DCR-SR85 HDD

help- I am a high school basketball coach, trying to import game film into iMovie to make a DVD. Someone donated a Sony DCR-SR85 to the team. Can anyone tell me how to import video files from that camera. I was told to upgrade to Quick Time Pro and this would help, but I am having no luck. I connect through the USB cord and the camera appears as "No Name" on my desktop, but neither iMovie or Quick Time will open the files.

Coach,
I'm not sure how helpful this will be to you, but it worked for me. It is a bit of a workaround, but saved me from having to convert the files to another format in order to get iMovie '08 to recognized them. I, too, was trying to make a DVD from video captured from a Sony Handycam, except in my case, instead of trying to directly download the video from the camera to a Mac, I had first downloaded the video to a PC at work using the software that came with the camera (Picture Motion Browser Utility). Because the video files are large, and wanting to take them home, I stored them on a USB external hard drive.
Wanting to put together a volleyball recruiting DVD, my plan was to open the files on my Mac in iMovie '08. No such luck -- it would not import the files. Searching through previous discussions, I found that you can only import these MPEG-2 type files after converting them using 3rd party software. I tried that, still with no luck. Until I found this little blurb on some other website:
"Notice that to make iMovie '08 recognize a loose MPEG2 file you may have to create a dummy camera on a USB Flash/HD Drive: at the root level of the drive put a folder "MP_ROOT", and in this folder put a folder "101PNV01" and put the MPEG2 files in it. When the USB Drive is inserted, iMovie '08 sees it as a camera and allows you to import the files."
I created the two folders mentioned above on the root of the external drive, copied the video file (mpg) into the subfolder, disconnected the hard drive, launched iMovie, then reconnected the hard drive and it worked. Kind of a pain, but hope this helps you.

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