Importing Video via USB??

How can I import video vith sound via USB? I have some family cassets and I bought this analog to digital converter but it is for PC I tought I can just plug it in and capture it with i-Movie but I was wrong. Is there any other way to do this? Please help.

Hi Roman,
welcome to this forum
iMovie is an edit app meant to work with firewire connected miniDV camcorders
so, a usb connected PCconverter will not be recognized by iM, and probably will not be recognized by any Mac app... Mac: there's coming in some data from some usb-device, what shall I do? help....
you can give the "image capture app" in your utilities folder a try, but I would be surprised, if THAT combo works... no, PChardware on a Mac... in many cases a NoGo....
as Grandpa told me:
buying cheap means buying twice......... :-/
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