In order to edit them with iMovie, you need to get that video footage into your computer. The process of transferring video from the videotape in your camcorder to the hard disk in your computer is called importing. It's quick and easy to import your video using the controls in the iMovie window. When you import your movie footage into iMovie, the raw video on your videotape is not changed or deleted. Instead, a copy of it is created on your hard disk. You will work with the copy in iMovie. What You'll Need Before you start, make sure that you have each of the following items on hand: · Your camcorder and videotape · FireWire cable · Macintosh computer with a FireWire port · At least 2 gigabytes (GB) of free hard disk space · At least 256 megabytes (MB) of random access memory (RAM) Before You Begin To make it easier to do the tasks in this lesson, print the lesson before you start. In many tasks shown in this lesson and in iMovie Help, you need to choose menu commands, which look like this: Choose Edit > Clear. The first term after Choose is the name of a menu in the iMovie menu bar (shown below). The next term (or terms) are the items you choose from that menu. Tutorial 1 FireWire The FireWire port on your Mac has this icon next to it: FireWire, which is also called IEEE 1394, is a technology that lets you transfer information between electronic devices at very high speeds. Using a FireWire cable, you can quickly move the large amounts of visual and audio information from your camcorder to your computer. You can identify a FireWire cable by the connectors on each end. Each connector is shown below next to the port it plugs into. The 4-pin connector shown on the left plugs into your camcorder. The 6-pin connector on the right plugs into the FireWire port on your computer...