IMovie won't finish importing my tape; help!

I'm having trouble importing footage from a Panasonic PV-GS120 to my iMac. iMovie rewinds and imports about 2 minutes worth of tape, then stops, generates thumbnails and calls it a day. I still have 15 minutes more footage, and am going nuts. Any ideas?
TIA,
laurahead

I'm having a similar problem. I'm trying to import from my camcorder, and it appears to import everything, but then it only spends about a minute processing the video, and then when I go look at the clips, only the first couple of minutes have been imported. I can't figure it out.

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