Problems Importing iMovie 05 - HI 8 Project

Sometimes within iMovie 04 I would often capture and convert movie footage from a HI 8 camcorder using my Sony DV camcorder as a bridge.
This always worked fine, and the analogue video passed through my Digital DV camcorder and I was able to manually capture the video footage.
However, I have just tried this within iMovie 05, and I can not find a way of doing this??
When you start iMovie 05, you have various options for capture, when creating a new Project. I chose DV as an option(capturing from a DV camcorder) and the tried to start a manual capture. Very often in the past using iMovie 04 I was unable to capture video if a DV film was detected in the Sony Camcorder, so I have made sure that there is no tape.
But I am unable to capture anything or see any video playing, within iMovie 05.
Can anyone tell me if thits type of capture is still possible within iMovie 05?
Thanks
G

Can anyone tell me if OS X version 10.4 or the iMovie version that goes along with this removed the "Automatic DV Pliiarboxing and Letterboxing" setting under iMovie -> Preferences -> Import?
I have a Miglia Director's Cut analog to Firewire converter connected to a DVD player that I'm playing a video thru to my G5. It streams in fine but as soon as I touch the clip to add it to the time line or change the name of the clip, this letterboxing thing automatically happens and my clip is squished in the vertical direction adding horizontal black stripes along the top and bottom.
Miglia said to turn off this feature in the preferences -> import menu, but I don't remember seeing this switch. Did it get removed?
Any other advise?
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