Connecting sony dsr-pdx10 toi-movie

Trying to connect my sony digital camcorder to my mac computer.I have the firewire cable but does not recognize the camera in i-movie??? Can you help. The camera is about 9 years old and the disk that came with the camera operates on Mac OSX-9. My laptop has version 10.4. Thanks for your help.Ken

Hi(Bonjour)!
Did you update quicktime recently ?
If so, look at:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301852
Michel Boissonneault

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