Opinion needed on MacBook Firewire workaround

I've never really used iMovie and I've got a Firewire camcorder and I want to be able to get the video on to my new MacBook (w/o firewire)
I plan on buying an HD (aka USB) camcorder when new models are released in about a month. But, I need a workaround in the meantime.
I am able to import the video using an old G4 & iMovie 2.0. I figure that I should be able to transfer the imported video from my G4 to my MacBook (Please correct me if I'm wrong on this.)
What I really need to know is if iMovie 2.0 video will import to iMovie '09 and are there any disadvantages to importing via iMovie 2.0?
Thanks for the advice,
Double_A

Hi
Guessing department.
I would if I had an old Mac with iMovie 2
• Import from Camera to this
• It doesn't create an iMovie movie project icon as iMovie 4-6 does BUT a plain folder
• in this there is a folder named Media and in this Your imported material are stored as
QuickTime.mov files
• Copy them to an external Mac OS Extended formatted hard disk (UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange
will NOT work)
• as You only have USB/USB2 then it has to be used and when You connect this external HD to Your MacBook
drag the movie material over to the internal hard disk of this.
To work with it on an external USB2 hard disk might work for a while but will
be more and more problematic (stuttering etc.)
This is the way I would try to do it.
I would also see if I could find a more modern version of iMovie that would run on an Old Mac eg iM4
Yours Bengt W

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