Trouble importing after release of iMovie HD8

Has anyone else experienced problems importing on iMovie HD6 recently? I have never had trouble before, importing directly from miniDV tapes from my Canon camcorder but now iMovie stops intermittently. I am having a similar problem on my PowerMac desktop as well. Is this Apple's way of getting us to update to HD8?

Hi Samantha,
If you haven't changed anything on your computers lately, such as new software, then Apple has no way to influence what has been happening. Do you have sufficient hard drive space available? iMovie consumes about 13GB per hour of video and you should always have a "buffer" of at least 20GB to avoid problems, such as slowing down, or quitting unexpectedly.
Be very aware that iMovie 08 is not an upgrade, or update and is not called iMovie HD8 because it is nothing like the iMovie 06 you have.

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