Capturing FCP

Hey,
I just shot on the DSR-P150. An old camera but I thought it would suffice. Hooked it up to my Graid drive with fire wire cable and FCP is not recognizing it. The AV device warning kept popping up.Tried different options in the Audio Video settings and now it does not even give me the undetected fire wire option. Do I need to try to import through iMovie? This is my first time using FCP on my new system so I am sure I am to fault. Any advice would be appreciated.
Thank you!

Hi,
Connect your camera through your computer firewire.
DM

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