Panasonic SD1 blues

So I finally got the camera to be recognized by imovie 08 (I have to restart the computer to get the SD disk to appear) It will look like it's importing then give me an ERROR OCCURRED DURING IMPORT window and I'll get about 2 seconds of a much longer clip. Any solutions?
The video on the imovie link makes this look so seamless. Thus far this has been very clunking and unpleasant.
I noticed when I do a GET INFO in the disk it's ms-dos formatted by camera.

I am quite confused why you keep saying to read your post. If you would kindly read all of mine, I have previously done everything you suggested, as these are the preliminary things to ck out. I did so before posting my question. What is it in your post that you want me to see? I believe everyone with import issues in IM08 knows to try straight from camera, and to try this both before and after cranking up IM08. I think I've made it clear that I have done this. The only update I have here is that I verified that no photos are on the card, therefore no iPhoto involvement here. I have checked for software updates a million times, plus even re-installed iLife08 followed by software updates. Nothing changes. If you have any useful advice, OTHER than to re-read your post, which has nothing in it I haven't already done, I would really enjoy seeing any suggestion you have. I am sure it is either some converter/codec file somewhere or some security setting. But, since I am relatively new to iMac I am not sure where to look other than System Prefs.
Do you have any suggestions? Please don't ask me to read your post again...Perhaps if you read mine, I could get help. I need to get this video on the web, like, a week ago. Another few days and it will all be down the drain.

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Greetings -- I have the Panasonic SD1. Import works fine on iMovie '08 (well, except for the audio being shifted right, but from other posts I have determined this is Apple's poor 5.1 audio support).
I just purchased FCE 4.0 and I cannot "log and capture" from the camera. To be fair, I haven't plugged the camera directly into the computer as I stopped doing this a while back. Instead, I have an SD card reader I use that mounts the drive in the same fashion as if the camera was directly connected and it has worked for iPhoto (for stills) and iMovie in the past.
I am able to pull up the "Log & Capture" dialog and can even preview the clips -- that seems to work just fine. However, if I try to import a movie (either by dragging to the queue, or double clicking, or using the contextual menu) it freezes and then very quickly crashes.
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You might want to take a look at these links.
http://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/newreadpost.cgi?forumid=8&postid=888324
http://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/newreadpost.cgi?forumid=8&postid=887896
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I am quite confused why you keep saying to read your post. If you would kindly read all of mine, I have previously done everything you suggested, as these are the preliminary things to ck out. I did so before posting my question. What is it in your post that you want me to see? I believe everyone with import issues in IM08 knows to try straight from camera, and to try this both before and after cranking up IM08. I think I've made it clear that I have done this. The only update I have here is that I verified that no photos are on the card, therefore no iPhoto involvement here. I have checked for software updates a million times, plus even re-installed iLife08 followed by software updates. Nothing changes. If you have any useful advice, OTHER than to re-read your post, which has nothing in it I haven't already done, I would really enjoy seeing any suggestion you have. I am sure it is either some converter/codec file somewhere or some security setting. But, since I am relatively new to iMac I am not sure where to look other than System Prefs.
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Let's start over.
I confused myself by invoking the Capture window. Of course that didn't work.
This was a completely different problem. My apologies.
The real problem was that the Log and Transfer window displayed ONLY the Logging pane. The clip list and queue pane were hidden and I couldn't get them back. I eventually found that resizing the entire window - even a small nudge - restored the missing panes. I expected the pane divider bar to not reveal the clip list, but this doesn't happen until the bar gets at least halfway across the window at which point the pane suddenly pops into view. This also confused me.
For the record, I'm using a MacBook core solo running Leopard. My Panasonic SD1 camera is not connected. The files from dozens of camera cards are stored on an external USB drive. I copy selected AVCHD folders from the USB drive to the root directory of the MacBook boot drive so that FCE will recognize them. The scratch disk is a large Firewire 400 drive also connected to the MacBook.

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