Import from  camera canon legria HV videos to imovie ?

I would like to import from my camera canon legria HV videos to imovie, but my macbook air is not recognizing my camera, i go out from my camera with firewire and go in the macbook air by usb. My camera is on and the tape is on "Play" .
Is the problem, that i go in by USB ?
thx
b

Hi,
looking at one of my files format is
Apple MPEG-2 SD Camcorder Video, 720 x 576 (1024 x 576), Millions
16-bit Integer (Little Endian), Left, 48.000 kHz
16-bit Integer (Little Endian), Right, 48.000 kHz
So it seems that imovie re-packed my movies to mov but keeping MPeg2 as video codec.
Then I don't understand the point of this. If the codec used is still MPEG2
why not just the file as it is ?
What I don't like is that import / export take times even when it is (seems) useless.
I used to use tools like VLC and avidemux to do some change on the video.
but it is now impossible as they won't be able to open the mov files
anyway, If I understand valuable replies from both of you I have no other choice.
thank a lot both of you
manu

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