Panasonic sdr h18 compatible with imovie

I was told downloading quicktime mpeg 2 will make my videos work with imovie. The same people said some things wouuldn't-like sound.I just had a baby and want to edit my videos . Finding time to figure out how to make this work is impossible.I thought digital and hard drive seemed up to date technology.Instead of analog tape.Mini dv doesn't work with my imac g5.Are there better ways to make this work with my system?

bluefish23225,
MiniDV is digital, and will work if it has a firewire connection on the camera, which is part of the MiniDV standard.
Some Hard Drive based camera's will work in iMovie '08. MPEG-2 is not supported even with the MPEG-2 playback component, because the files are "muxed".
This article contains more information:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42996
Hope this helps,
Nathan C.

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