imovie wont play when camera connected

[robinhoodless]

hi. i'm using a standard dv tape with camcorder. i'm connected to laptop with firewire and imovie says camera is connected. when i hit play it says camera is playing but the screen remains blue. the tape plays fine on the camcorder even when connected to my laptop but there's no picture in imovie??? it's worked fine before and now just decided not to play it. i don't know where to start looking to sort it out. help appreciated.

[terryj]

quit iMovie.
Trash the following Prefs:
com.apple.iMovie.plist
com.apple.Quicktime.plist
relaunch iMovie.

known bug with iMovie, where the prefs get corrupted,
and iMovie cannot use Quicktime FW controller to "talk" to your device.

[robinhoodless]

thanks for your advice. i've tried it, but hasn't worked. the file com.apple.Quicktime.plist wasn't even there. any other tips??

[robinhoodless]

another thing that happens is sometimes it takes several attempts to load all the clips in my project. there's about 80, but the first attempts to open the file load only a third of this. this project has taken sooo long to do so far, i will puke if i can't complete it. help!!!