FCE doesn't recognizing my HV30 camcorder

So why doesn't FCE find my HV30 camcorder while iMovie has no problem?
I thought FCE was a step up? The Canon software (yes I updated to the latest) doesn't find it either.
I find this quite odd and don't want to have to import into iMovie and then import into FCE. Seems a bit backward.
Any tips?

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Turn on and connect Camera in VCR/Play mode - Then first start FinalCut.
*NO CAMERA or A/D-box*
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• Sure that You use the FireWire - USB will not work for miniDV tape Cameras
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from LKN 1935.
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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 ..
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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.
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if you have adobe cs3 or 4 and have the adobe bridge on close that
or no firewire will work
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DJ1249 wrote
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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