It won't support Canon Vixia HF S11

I tested capturing from my Canon Vixia HF S11 and it won't work. Is it supported?
Milan

One other thing I've recommended to people is with the camera plugged into the wall outlet, put the camera into playback mode. Just let the thing playback some video and run continuously, reboot the Mac. As soon as you see the desktop launch iMovie. Go to File Menu > Import from Camera. It might take an annoyingly large number of attempts following this first run. So just keep at it. Something will eventually trigger the Mac to recognize the camera eventually. Once it sees it the camera the first time it should work after that pretty consistently.

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