IMovie does not see my camera

iMovie will not recognize my camera. My camera is a Sony DCR-SR47.
When I select Import from camera, I only see my facetime camera. I tried unplugging cables, restarting camera, changing cables, restarting iMovie and restarting the computer.
It seems pretty straightforward, but ... no camera shows up.

According to http://help.apple.com/imovie/cameras/en/index.html?lang=en_US your camcorder is supported by iMovie '11 (Version 9).
But, according to http://help.apple.com/imovie/10/cameras/en/index.html?lang=en_US it is not supported by iMovie '13 (Version 10)
The reason is Apple  has dropped support for some of the older codecs.
So I infer you are using iMovie 10?  All is not lost, but you will have to copy the files from you camera to hard disk with Finder and then transcde them into a format that iMovie 10 accepts.  The article:
http://lauralily10.tumblr.com/post/68120460685/mpg-imovie-mac-how-do-i-import-a- mpg-file-into-imovie
should help here. 
There are a number 3rd party apps, some free, that will do the transcoding in fact Quicktime 10 may be the easiest since it converts old codecs before playing and you can save the converted files
Geoff.

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