Is the Canon R500 supported by iMovie 9 on SnowLeopard?

I have Snow Leopard with iMovie 9.0.4 running and a Canon camcorder HF R500. It is not natively recognized and am wondering how to make it connect and import videos easily. It will record in either MP4 or AVCHD formats. Recommendations on how to make this work?

The camera must be connected via Firewire (not USB) to import the DV Stream format.
Read the manual for further instructions. It should work with any version of iMovie.

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