Importing Issues: I'm New At This

So I'm new at this and not entirely savvy with the Mac. I am trying to bring in old home movies that I got put onto DVDs. I am having no luck importing them at all and I'm looking for assistance.
I have tried dragging the dvd icon into the imovie space. I have tried choosing import movie from the menu, both with no luck.
Are there only certain formats that can come in from a dvd? what are they? Can I convert what I have into one of those formats?
The computer appears to think that the disk is empty. It will however play the movie.

Can I convert what I have into one of those formats?
Yes.
what are they?
If you are performing manual conversions, then try DV, AIC, Motion-JPEG, Photo-JPEG, MPEG-4, or H.264. Avoid the Animation and Video codecs since iMovie '08 will import and edit them but refuse to export more than a "black" display.
Are there only certain formats that can come in from a dvd?
Imovie '08 will only import DVD content if you can fool the application into thinking the content is on a camcorder device. Various methods of imaging files have been described in this forum. For some they work and or others they don't. Alternatively, you can copy your VOB sets from your DVD to your hard drive and then convert them to iMovie '08 compatible compression formats. This can be done using applications such as iSquint (free but limits you to MPEG-4/AAC and H.264/AAC exports), MPEG Streamclip (free but requires the $20 QT MPEG-2 Playback component), FFmpegX (donation-ware), Visual Hub (pay-ware), etc.

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Can be so much.
Often Camera has to be connected to Charger/mains during Capture.
An majority is a faulthy - badly connected FW-Cable (USB don't work at all)
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Cable
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• Test Your Camera on another Mac so that DV-in still works OK
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• Camera connected to "charger" (mains adaptor) - not just on battery
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(Hard to find out - else than import/export to another Mac ceased to work
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Connections
• Daisy Chaining most often doesn’t work (some unique cases - it’s the only way that work (some Canon Cameras ?))
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Mac
• Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk ? Please specify the amount of free space.
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I go for a minmum of 25Gb free space for 4x3 SD Video - and my guess is 5 times more for 16x9 HD ones
after material is imported and edited.
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But laying down only 5 to 6 seconds for a scene is wrong, IMO.

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