Import old Video 8 footage

Hi all,
I am trying to import some very old tapes to iMovie. As they are from a Sony Hanycam Video 8 and analogue I am using a Sony VX 2000 as a pass through. I have the camera's connected via RCA jacks and the VX 2000 connected via Firewire. The VX 2000 DV-Out is set to "On" I can see the footage in the VX 2000 but iMovie just gives a message "Camera - No Tape" and I can not start the input. I have tried on the old iMovie HD and iMovie 9.04.
Any help appreciated.

Good Morning Fredric, I did try to click the helpful button on your first response but got into difficulties and had to start again. What is the significance of doing this?
With the pass-thru method which I hope to achieve it should take half the time compared to recording everything onto DV tape which could be quite laborious.
The tapes are not tracking properly in the old Sony video8 deck and today I aim to fiddle with the guides which align the tape on the spool and so avoid the noise bars which appear at the bottom of the picture.
My daughter in Edinburgh was the first to convert to one of the new iMacs and then my son and I here in Argyll both swopped over, and just in the last 2 weeks another son in Dublin has bought a minimac. The three of us with iMacs have the built in isight cameras and we can all iChat with one another.
Graham in Dublin had to buy an external isight camera from Apple but he cannot get it to work with ichat in spite of strenuous efforts, opening ports on his router and modem etc.etc.etc.
The strange thing is the camera works perfectly when he contacts an Apple ichat test sight, and also works a treat with the latest Beta2 version of Skype for Macs.He is on the point of giving up, and just using Skype, which is a pity.
Looking at the forums this seems to be an ongoing problem with many users, and is often related to updating Tiger to 10.4.8 which seems to interfere.
We have just put our clocks back by an hour so you are not so far behind us now!

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