IMovie can control camera, but doesn't import the movie.

I have a Canon ZR500 plugged directly into my iMac using DV/Firewire.
iMovie goes through all the correct steps to import my movie off of the camera - I can play, pause, RW, FF, etc. all through iMovie, but when I click the import button in iMovie I just get a blue screen with a timer. The timer counts down but no movie is imported.
I've repaired permissions and tried 2 different cables and nothing helps.
Any ideas?

I am having the same issues as you described as well. I am using a Cannon HD20 with the playback set for HDV, with imovie HD ( iLife 06) set up for video HD 1080i. I am able to control the camera from from the imovie screen however when it comes to either play or import the camera responds with the commands but I only see a blue screen on the mac. I uploaded today to Leopard thinking perhaps that might help and to no avail. I am extremely frustrated I hope someone has an idea what to try next.

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