Import video only grabs first 1.9 seconds

First...I am newly back to Apple from the late 90's, I missed her so. Now...
I am using an older Sony Hi8 camcorder (borrowed to digitize an old tape of my daughter), trying to import into iMovie '08. The camcorder has firewire (which I found odd for a Hi8) and USB streaming, which I've never used before. I am using the FireWire for now. The camera is seen, iMovie's import dialog pops up and seems to work.
When I set it to Automatic it rewinds and imports 1.9 seconds then stops and rewinds. The clip has a few frames of random colour blocks and then blue.
I thought it might be because the first couple seconds of the tape were blank, so I deleted that and tried manual...
When I set it to Manual starting a second or so into actual video, it starts the import, runs the entire tape through for 2 hours, after it stops there is still a 1.9 sec. clip, which has a few frames of random colour blocks and then blue.
Any thoughts anyone?

Any thoughts anyone?
It's only a personal opinion, but I believe that in an effort to support so many formats and so many camcorders by different manufacturers, that both the import and export modules in iMovie '08 are a bit "buggy" and will likely remain so until all of the kinks get worked out. (Which I in fact do think will eventually happen.) However, as a member of the church of the "here and now," I am more interested in what works "here and now" and not what will work at a later time. To achieve those goals, would recommend either using the more stable "capture/import" option available in iMovie '06 or use of a dedicated capture utility like Vidi. Since these work flows are more "contemporaneous" with respect to the Digital8/Hi8 camcorder you borrowed, I suspect they will work more as you expect them to in your current situation and once copied to a hard drive can easily be imported to iMovie '08 as a normal file at the "Finder" level.

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