Trouble importing from Sony HDV HC1, I link already turned to off

I have had success importing some of my tapes to imovie, but on some tapes imovie will only control the camcorder but will not play it on the computer screen or import the video. It just rewinds it, starts and then immediately stops. Sony support says it is a problem with the tape. I think I may have changed a setting on the tape halfway through recording it.The tape plays fine on the camcorder. Any ideas anyone?

Hi
If I understands this right
a. Use DV on Camera - HDV is problematic if it even works at all.
b. FireWire - iLink connection
c. Camera set in it's menu to send out as DV
My wild Guessings - Bengt W (still in miniDV tape world - as it works so well)

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