This is very helpful…but I found that iMovieHD 6, which was tucked away in my old Mac laptop, reads and edits the files just fine, although there is a long load time while it converts the file to something it can manipulate more easily.
I used the Nikon Transfer utility to bring the file out of my s8000 into my Wintel machine, and have the most recent quicktime installed. But Vegas 8 doesn’t seem to recognize this without some kind of conversion.