Firewire not detected in iMovie

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farron

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I have an old JVC GR-DVL920U digital camera and am attempting to connect it to my (new) macbook with a firewire..iMovie does not detect any camera connected. I initially attached the cable to the camera, then into the firewire port, then turned the camera on to VCR mode...when that didn't work I tried restarting the camera, unpluging and pluging back the firewire and even restarting the computer with the firewire plugged in.

The computer is not detecting and device being plugged into the firewire port. I even tried with a USB and didn't capture any detection. My still digital camera (Canon SD1000) plugs in with the USB and has no problems, my (old) ipod shuffle plugs directly into the USB port and there are no problems...am i doing something wrong?

Thank you much for any help you can give!
 
anyone? I'm getting desperate here! ...video editing is one of the main reasons I purchased the macbook in the first place...please, please, please...anyone?
 
Start up System Profiler and click on FireWire to see if your camera appears here. If you try different connections use Refresh in the View menu to see the change. iMovie HD doesn't always automatically switch to the camera so click on the camera icon or the slide switch to change to camera. Also in earlier version of iMovie i could use an external FireWire drive with my FW camera. iMovie HD will not show the camera while the FW driveis connected
 
I had the exact same problem ...

Curious: are you using VMWare to run Windows on the Mac?

I was ... and it turned out that VMWare was hijacking the Firewire & USB ports for Windows but not letting me use them with Mac. I had to turn on and boot up Windows, THEN try it on the Mac side ... and it worked.
 
I have a canon fs100 which worked fine in imovie '08 via usb. However when I upgraded to '09 imovie could not detect my camera. I stumbled onto the solution. Instead of using "import from camera" from drop down menu click on the camera icon (not the video camera icon). Imovie then opened my cameras files, created thumbnails, and invited me to import. Just as normal. No idea why it doesn't work the way it is supposed to. Maybe this can help you.
 
I've had nothing but Problems out of imovie 09. I bought a new mac book 3 months ago and have only found one out of 4 cameras that would work in imovie 09,
and all 4 cameras work on my PC. I spent hours on the phone with apple support even the "specialists" with no results. I've tried a JVC GR-D33U a panasonic & 2 Sonys. I even spoke with JVC and they said imovie 08 works great. I am supposed to get a call or e-mail from a specialist with a fix, but that was a month ago. As soon as I here something I'll post it. Good Luck.
 
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