FCP 7 and Panasonic HVX200

I work in radio and I'm relatively new to video. I have a Panasonic P2 AG HVX200P camera.
I couldn't capture video from my P2 card on FCP 5 so I've been shooting on tape, which I was able to log and capture. I installed FCP 7 so now I can ingest from the P2 card. But now I can't log and capture the tape. Has anyone had this problem? Does anyone know how to fix it? When I plug in the camera through firewire and launch FCP, I get a message saying it can't find the camera. I'm used to this happening when there is no camera connected. But it should see the camera, shouldn't it?

David,
I looked at the manual and can switch between the tape and P2. My problem was getting the stuff into my computer. Thanks to this forum I finally figured it out. Thanks for your reply. This video stuff is a lot more complicated than radio.

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