IMovie 9 with Refurb Macbook with only USB connection

Is it possible to import video into iMovie with a Mini DV camera through a USB connection (since that is ALL that is on my Macbook)?
If so...why have iMovie on a computer that doesn't have a Firewire input? Why did they even make these?

Hi -
guitargirl wrote:
Is it possible to import video into iMovie with a Mini DV camera through a USB connection (since that is ALL that is on my Macbook)?
No.
If so...why have iMovie on a computer that doesn't have a Firewire input? Why did they even make these?
I think because people are/have been moving away from tape based cameras to hard disc & memory card based video cameras, which do use the USB port to connect and not firewire.
Hope this helps.

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