After you capture great footage with your FireWire camcorder, you're ready to make a movie. First you'll need to connect your camcorder to your Mac, and then copy footage from the camcorder into iMovie, a process known as importing. iMovie makes importing easy. When you import video into an iMovie project, it automatically divides your video into individual clips, making it easy to edit.

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Part 1. How to Import Video from a Camcorder to your Mac

Step 1: Connect camcorder to your Mac computer with cable (USB/Wifi)
Step 2: Select mode of camcorder such as PC/Computer mode
Step 3: iMovie will automatic open Import window
Step 4: If DVD Player automatic open. just quit DVD Player first
Step 5: So Now, you can review your video or select "Import All"(make sure your switch is set to "Automatic")
Step 6: If you select "Manual", you can import some clip to iMovie
Step 7: If you import from Tape based device (DV/HDV), iMovie will automatic revise tape and import all
Step 8: iMovie automatic create thumbnail video after complete import

Part 2. Tips:

Tip 1. iMovie automatically detects your camcorder;
Tip 2. iMovie supports different video formats;
Tip 3. Import directly to the iMovie timeline;
Tip 4. If you're importing video that is already edited;
Tip 5. What you need to make a high-definition video with iMovie;
Tip 6. Using video from an MPEG-4 camera;
Tip 7. Using video from your connected or built-in iSight camera;
Tip 8. Monitor the amount of hard disk space remaining;

If you are interested in this tutorial, you can visit the origional entry for more info here.
http://www.iskysoft.com/article/import-camcorder-video-to-mac.html?page=126