Importing video from zoom q2hd

I recently purchased a Zoom Q2hd video camera. I use a Mac 2.66 ghz, intel core 2 duo, version 10.7.5. The problem is on connecting it via usb to the mac, imovie software '09 does not recognize it as a camera and won't import directly. I have found a walk around using image capture, but it's ridiculously time consuming! Does anyone know why imovie '09 won't recognize the Zoom Q2hd camera and allow import directly? or why it won't even allow me to import the .mov files once on my desktop directly? It recognizes other cameras as well as the iphone videos, just not the zoom. Any help appreciated. thanks.

thank you! that's what I thought of doing, but the zoom software did weird things to my mac (seemed to install itself into my log in items and caused problems with shutting the mac down) so I uninstalled it. I may try redownloading and reinstalling and experiment some more. I did like the options of being able to use some reverb effects on the tracks, which unfortunately i movie doesn't offer.
PS-how's your Q2hd video quality? I'm video taping live drumming under photo studio lights. sounds great, but video doesn't look like 1080 hd quality, it's actually quite grainy, very disappointing. any shared experience or tips on that also appreciated.
Thanks again!

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