USB for analog to digital video input?

I have a USB-based Analog-to-Digital video converter that I used when I had my PC, for transferring old family video tapes to digital to burn DVDs.
Can I use this with my Mac with iMovie 08), or will the Mac only accept digital video via a Firewire input?
- Mike

Mike Rivera wrote:
... Can I use this with my Mac with iMovie 08), or will the Mac only accept digital video via a Firewire input?
no, you can not use that device, because usb-devices need specific 'drivers', which in most cases are of no avail for Mac ..
but...
many harddrive-camcorders are connected via usb, and DO work with Mac..
if a device has both (miniDV camcorders), the video is only imported via firewire, the usb-connection is only in use for stills, those devices allow to record ...

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