Camcorders not seen in iMovie HD 6

I have camecorders that were working with iMovie - then I upgraded to iLife 06 with iMovie HD 6. The camecorders worked for a short while and now are not working at all. I have Sony Handycams (DCR-HC20, DCR-HC48 and DCR-TRV320). I have 6 eMacs which are all doing the same thing. I have tried all of the connection tips from the help page and tried different firewires. Does anyone have any advice?
I teach middle school and the students have filmed but can now no longer import.
Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Actually. I have just noticed that with the panasoinic plugged in it does show up in the system profiler as unknown along with my backup drive and something else. they read like this.
FireWire Bus:
Maximum Speed: Up to 800 Mb/sec
00DWA0:
Manufacturer: DMI
Model: 0x340
GUID: 0x63A27D4051FEE
Maximum Speed: Up to 400 Mb/sec
Connection Speed: Up to 400 Mb/sec
Sub-units:
00DWA0 Unit:
Unit Software Version: 0x10483
Unit Spec ID: 0x609E
Firmware Revision: 0x438
Product Revision Level: 4.38
Sub-units:
00DWA0 SBP-LUN:
Capacity: 149.05 GB
Removable Media: Yes
BSD Name: disk1
OS9 Drivers: No
S.M.A.R.T. status: Not Supported
Volumes:
Backup:
Capacity: 149.05 GB
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk1s2
Mount Point:
Unknown Device:
Manufacturer: Unknown
Model: Unknown Device
Maximum Speed: Up to 400 Mb/sec
Connection Speed: Up to 400 Mb/sec
Unknown Device:
Manufacturer: Unknown
Model: Unknown Device
Maximum Speed: Up to 400 Mb/sec
Connection Speed: Up to 400 Mb/sec
However, when I plug the Sony in. None of them come up and it only reads:
Maximum Speed up to 800 Mb/sec.
Not sure why that is happening.

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I went and bought a Sony DVD Handycam Model DVD703E with HD capacity. EVERY NEW concept has it's limitations !
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+ you can easily convert mpeg2 files into QT files for export into iMovie, the quality of the QT file depending only on the codec used. UNFORTUNEATELY, high quality comes with very long encoding times- up to 12 hours for a 30 minute DVD.
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MOST of these chronic misinformed posters don't OWN OR USE a videocam, let alone use any version of iMovie.
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*NO CAMERA or A/D-box*
Cable
• Are You sure that You are using the FireWire Cable - USB-Cable will not work for miniDV tape Cameras
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Try to avoid connecting Camera <--> external HD <--> Mac but import directly to the Mac then move
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Mac
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• Does Your Mac have a FireWire Port
• White MacBooks - don't
• MacBook-Air - don't
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• Any strange Plug-ins into QuickTime as Perian etc ? Remove and try again.
• FileVault is off ? (hopefully)
• Screen Saver - OFF
• Energy Saver - OFF
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• Mac OS - X.5.4 ?
• QuickTime version ? (This is the heart in both iMovie and FinalCut)
• iMovie’08 (7.1.?), 09 or 11 ?
• iMovie HD 6 (6.0.4/3) ?
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• Use another Camera. There where tape play-back stations from SONY
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(Should be a FireWire one - USB/USB2 performs badly)
from LKN 1935.
Hi Bengt W, I tried it all, but nothing worked. Your answer has been helpfull insofar as all the different trials led to the conclusion that there was something wrong with my iMovie software. I therefore threw everything away and reinstalled iMovie from the HD. After that the exportation of DV videos (there has not been any problem with HDV videos) to my Sony camcorders worked properly as it did before. Thank you. LKN 1935
from Karsten.
in addition to Bengt's excellent '9 yards of advice' ..
camera set to 'Play' , not rec/computer/etc.?
camera not on battery, but power-line?
did your Mac 'recognize' this camera before...?
a technical check.
connect camera, on, playback, fw-connected...
click on the Blue Apple, upper left of your screen ..
choose 'About../More..
under Firewire.. what do you read..?
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• FileVault - Secure that it’s turned off
• Network storage - DOESN’T WORK
• Where did You store/capture/import Your project ?
External USB hard disk = Bad Choise / FireWire = Good
If so it has to be Mac OS Extended formatted
----> UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange is NOT Working for VIDEO !
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Thanks for all your suggestions. What I learned is that I had a software problem. I had something called "Nikon Transfer" on my Mac that was recognizing my Canon camcorder as a still camera and was preventing iMovie from working properly. After uninstalling Nikon Transfer and doing a reboot, everything worked great.
I never liked the Nikon Transfer software anyway--I guess I'll get a cheap card reader and use that to transfer photos in the future.
*No Camera or bad import*
• USB hard disk
• Network storage
• File Vault is on
jiggaman15dg wrote
if you have adobe cs3 or 4 and have the adobe bridge on close that
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The problem was the external backup hard drive that is connected, you need to disconect the external drive before the mac can see the video camera.
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Maybe your problems is solved in the meantime, but for all others this might help as I had the same problem, also have the Sony HDR-HC7, but the 7e (Europe, PAL). I found this link today and it works perfectly
//support.sony-europe.com/tutorials/dime/videotransfer/vtransfer.aspx site=odwenGB&sec=DVH&m=HDR-HC7E
What I exactly did.- put camera in play mode - open guide - choose connection guide - choose comp./printer (where to transfer movie to) - select connection.- i-link (on my camera) but equal to firewire - OK - choose HDV - choose NO for conversion of i.link.
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