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I am trying to transfer my video from my Panasonic camcorder to iMovie, but am getting a communication error?

I have a PV-GS120 (DV) video camera. I need an Apple user to help me answer my question. iMovie is recognizing my camera, but it has a blue screen and says "Communication Error" and won't let me import my video? Why is this doing this? How can I fix this?

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1. Boot into Safe Mode and reboot regularly.
Either boot from the Install Disk to run Repair Disk w/Disk Utility or boot into Single User mode to run fsck -y.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then reboot and run Repair Permissions with Disk Utility.
If any of those don't fix iMovie, you can try deleting iMovie's plist file from Home > Library > Preferences folder, logout of your account then log back in and try iMovie.
Delete User and Applications Cache files with Onyx.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/20070
Other troubleshooting.
http://forums.osxfaq.com/viewtopic.php?t=7269
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2004011205473937
http://thexlab.com/faqs/faqs.html