IMovie 09 import hangs

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I've seen a few archived posts on this with no apparent solution. iMovie 09 is hanging (spinning wheel) during import from a Canon Vixia. It will import a few clips at a time just fine, but if importing more than about 4 clip it will hang.
It's like it stopped talking to the camera. Say I choose 10 clips to import... and say it imports 4... it successfully imports the 4th file, but it doesn't negotiate with the camera to start the 5th (I can tell because the data light on the camera doesn't blink like it normally does between clips).
The workaround I've noticed (annoying) is to import 3 or 4 clips, restart iMovie, import 4 more clips... etc, etc.
Any help for this?

AppleMan1958 wrote:
You need an Intel Mac to import AVCHD clips. Are these SD clips?
AppleMan1958: The camera "theanimaster" is referring to is a Standard Definition MPEG2 device.
theanimaster: It seems you already have your answer - just use your MacBook. But if you must use your iMac G5, how about _MPEG Streamclip_ to perform the Camera import & iMovie for the Editing of those clips.

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