Why won't iMovie recognize my Canon Optura?

I have a new MacBook Pro and iMovie will not "see" my Optura 20 when I hook it up with Firewire to import video. I have used this camera successfully with iMovie 06 on my iBook G4 and iMac. Any ideas?
Thanks

There is something going on with Leopard not recognizing the camera. I took my camera and MacBook Pro into the Genius Bar and the lady said that she has seen this issue a couple of times and she has no answers. She basically told me that I cannot use iMovie '08 until Apple figures it out with a software update. This really stinks because I bought the MacBook Pro because of the speed with the intel chip to make movies of the kids. I now have to go back to using my iMac G4 that I bought in 2000. I am going to try to import all of my video onto an external HD and then hook up to my new MacBook Pro to do the editing. I'll let you know if it works. I hope they get this one figured out soon. Not the news that you wanted on Christmas day.

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Toogle in iMovie pref: Play-back via Camera (on<->off some times)
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from LKN 1935:
Hi Bengt W, I tried it all, but nothing worked. Your answer has been helpfull insofar as all the different trials led to the conclusion that there was something wrong with my iMovie software. I therefore threw everything away and reinstalled iMovie from the HD. After that the exportation of DV videos (there has not been any problem with HDV videos) to my Sony camcorders worked properly as it did before. Thank you. LKN 1935
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in addition to Bengt's excellent '9 yards of advice' ..
camera set to 'Play' , not rec/computer/etc.?
camera not on battery, but power-line?
did your Mac 'recognize' this camera before...?
a technical check:
connect camera, on, playback, fw-connected...
click on the Blue Apple, upper left of your screen ..
choose 'About../More..
under Firewire.. what do you read..?
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