Is Video shot from a Panasonic SD90K Camcorder iMovie compatible ?

Want to buy my adult daughter a camcorder, and the Panasonic SD90K is on my short list. But I would like to make sure there are no gotchas with using the video file format in iMovie. That woud be a deal breaker and if there were, I'd move to plan B. Anyone using a SD90K camcorder ? Thanks.

Forest, I tried your suggestions, but still no luck downloading. iMovie searches for the camera, but can't find it. I'm getting concerned that the GS500 is not compatible with Macs. Any other ideas?
Hi Jek
1. Camera turned off - connect firewire to Mac and
camera.
2. Open iMovie and create a name for your clips.
3. Be sure cam is set on playback -NOT PC mode
4. Turn on cam. At this point your Mac should
recognize your cam and will
show in the iMovie screen as "ready to capture",
or words to that effect.
. Use the on screen controls to start the capture
process. The computer will
control the camera.
ur Mac captures the video in real time, meaning that
if your total clips are 45 minutes of tape, it will
take 45 minutes to capture to your Mac. Hope that
helps you. Nice cam, by the way. Lucky are those of
us that got one before Panasonic discontinued it and
dummied down their consumer line of miniDV cams.
Forest
iMac G5 20" 1.8
GHz - 400GB HD - 2GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.8)
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