In and out of focus

I downloaded from Canon HV30 (tape) to iMovie '09. Every 20 seconds or so the picture goes in and out of focus and then back to sharp again. It is a very "soft" focus change but annoying. This continues after editing and sharing to iDVD and burning.
Could this be a problem with the camera tape not being tight, or could it be something in iMovie?

Tape tension has nothing to do with it.
This is a digital camera: if the tape lost tension you'd have no image at all, or a "mosaic" or "blocky" image because of missing chunks of data.
The focus isn't related to the tape at all. It's like moments of blurry eyesight aren't caused by lack of grip on the floor of your shoes!
It's the camera "hunting" for focus, as explained by AppleMan and Karsten. You may not see this on the camera's own built-in viewfinder monitor ..but that really is the cause.
The tape's tension, or contact with the tape-head, is not it. If there were poor contact you'd have sporadic loss of both sound and picture ..but not a change of focus.

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