Import from camera will not save

When I try to import a movie from a hand held camera (Sony Handycam HDR-HC9) with a FireWire cable iMovie will not import the video. It was working fine one minute then stopped. I have tried different recorded tapes and still nothing.
The video will nnot play back on the Mac screen and will not save the movie even though it says it is importing. I tried using my personal Mac and it worked fine on there. I know it is a problem with iMovie on my work Mac.m

Welcome to the  Discussion Forums.
Your h264 video files may not be in a format which imovie uses. Videos imported this way need to be in a format the camera supports. If however imovie recognises a camera or a camera archive it will carry out the appropriate conversion for you. You may need to copy the file/folder system from the camera rather than just the files.

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