Importing with Panasonic PV-GS32

Over the last few months I've imported hours of video footage from my Panasonic PV-GS32. One day last week I was only able to import for about 10 minutes before it stopped. I tried a few extra times with no luck, then waited a day and tried again and it worked. A week later I only get about 3 seconds of importing before it stops and won't go any further. I've tried the following with no luck: a new account within my iMac; a different fire wire port; a new fire wire cable; shutting down and unplugging my iMac.
Any other ideas or has anyone had difficulty importing with a Panasonic PV-GS32 lately?
iMac4, Mac OS X (10.4.7) 2 GHz Intel Core Duo
iMac4, Mac OS X (10.4.7) 2 GHz Intel Core Duo
Message was edited by: Scott J O

Welcome to iMovie Discussions.
I wonder how full your Mac's hard disc is. Digital Video needs about 13GB of space per hour of recording time. So that's about 6.5GB per half hour of tape, or about 2GB of space per 10 minutes.
If there's not much empty space left on your disc, there may not be room to store much video.
If your disc is full from "..importing hours of video.." you may need to get an external FireWire disc for storing more material. If you do buy an external disc, you'll need to plug it in, go to Applications>Utilities>Disk Utility, then select your new disc and click the 'Erase' tab in Disk Utility, and format the new external disc as "Mac OS Extended" ..otherwise it won't work correctly with iMovie.

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