Trying to get movies off of Sony XR500 video cam

I have a Sony XR500 video cam and i'm trying to download it from the camera to iMovie HD. But when I iMovie keeps defaulting to iSight which leads me to believe that it doesn't recognize the camera. Please help! Thanks.

iMovie HD works only with tape based DV or HDV cameras.
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