Panasonic camcorder choice (log & Transfer problems?)

Hi
I recently borrowed a panasonic HDC-HS9 which I like very much but had some problems with Log & Transfer on FCE... After some setting up I managed to get the L&T working well but could never get the preview to work. When attempting to preview it would either crash FCE, turn the preview window green, or both. Has anyone else solved this problem?
I am thinking of getting the lower spec HDC-SD9 camcorder but have some reservations re. compatability given the issue above. Also the SW supplied by panasonic only supports PC... any thoughts people?

I have an HDC-HC5, when connected via usb to camera for import I sometimes had some issues, mainly with speed but not quite what you are reporting.
What I ended u doing was connecting the SD card directly to the MAC using a SD->USB card reader, seemed to be better.
The software supplied (HD-Writer) is dire and uis of no use, the MPEG export is a joke.

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Thanks for all your suggestions. What I learned is that I had a software problem. I had something called "Nikon Transfer" on my Mac that was recognizing my Canon camcorder as a still camera and was preventing iMovie from working properly. After un-installing Nikon Transfer and doing a reboot, everything worked great.
I never liked the Nikon Transfer software anyway--I guess I'll get a cheap card reader and use that to transfer photos in the future.
No Camera or bad import
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if you have adobe cs3 or 4 and have the adobe bridge on close that
or no firewire will work
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The problem was the external backup hard drive that is connected, you need to disconnect the external drive before the mac can see the video camera.
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Maybe your problems is solved in the meantime, but for all others this might help as I had the same problem, also have the Sony HDR-HC7, but the 7e (Europe, PAL). I found this link today and it works perfectly
//support.sony-europe.com/tutorials/dime/videotransfer/vtransfer.aspx site=odw_en_GB&sec=DVH&m=HDR-HC7E
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Impressive - you've been very methodical & thorough - I wish most posts were as thoroughly detailed as yours! But something else is going on. I have FCE 4.0.1 on 10.6.2 and it's working perfectly; ditto for a lot of other people here.
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