Imovie freezes when camera connects or it doesnt connect at all.

I know you guys always get these questions so T.I.A for and answers I get. So my camera is a Panasonic PV-gs120. It randomly connects to imovie and when it does and i try to import video or control my camera through imovie I get the pinwheel of death. Sometimes it will connect then say " Camera off or disconnected". I have deleted the preferences and repaired permissions several times. I have a feeling though that the problem lies within my camera. It actually worked flawlessly for maybe a week and has not worked since. Every other camera i have tried workes first try no problem... Same model, i tried a vx and some others with no problems.
Any ideas?

I have the exact same problem on my Mac Pro. It seems to be something with this model camera. I spent about a week researching this. I found other posts on the net with this problem. It works fine on my G5 and my Mac Book Pro, but not my Mac Pro. Front Firewire ports don't work at all, back work for a sec or two or not at all. G5 and Mac Book Pro are fine. I even went and got a new firewire pci-x card and nothing. I'd love to hear if anyone know about this, but for some reason it just seems a lost cause on the Mac Pro. It used to work with Tiger, I have a few hours of footage I captured using the rear ports, but in Leopard, I get jack. I installed Tiger on another drive to test it out, still nothing.
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