@ vanblah: Pretty sure iFuckUpYourProject imported things into raw. Not sure about the OP, but the cameras I used (when hooked up to the Mac), the Mac seemed to play the file from the cameras---I watched the file in nearly real time. The files on the camera would be short clips, a few MB, but then turned into something much larger on the Mac. The editing in the Mac looked awesome---until I had to convert it to anything. I would not only get blurs and "wandering pixels"*, but also just blank white pixels would appear in the final encode.
@ Jimellow: I looked around on my site,
VideoHelp.com - Forum, Guides, Tools and hardware lists , but didn't turn up anything that I could use. Granted the things I found seemed to be harder than Chinese math to use, so I didn't have time to try them out given the time tables I was on.
Unless you have luck burning it to a DVD (which I didn't), I think you are kinda screwed,
* I think good compressors search for groups of images that move in order to better the compression. In my case, these groups of random pixels would move and completely ruin the movie when I converted it to anything.