Firewire800 to 6 pin Firewire

Hi there,
I have a MacBook Pro mid 2007 with a Firewire800 port I have never used and I want to hook it up to a video switcher at my school which has a 6 pin Firewire cable. (I want to send video OUT from the Mac to the switcher, just by playing movies via iTunes or Quicktime). My question is - is the Firewire800 port a video OUT or video IN? I just don't want to waste $35 on a cable http://www.belkin.com/au/p/P-F3N404-APL/ that I might not be able to use.
Thanks -

Hi Scott,
Just some thoughts:
I don't know the answer to your question, but this thread would seem to say yes: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3754292
FW will export data to peripherals (HDs etc.) and import it (from FW camcorders, HDs etc.) making it a two way data street. I suspect, as the above thread gets into, it depends on software in combination with hardware.
FWIW

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With the reservation of that I us:
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• Mac OS X.6.9
see my notes
NO CAMERA or A/D-box
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• Are You sure that You are using the FireWire Cable - USB-Cable will not work for miniDV tape Cameras
FireWire - Sure not using the accompany USB-Cable but bought a 4-pin to 6-pin (or 9-pin) FW one ?
• Test another FW-Cable very often the problem maker.
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• Toggle in iMovie pref. Play-back via Camera (on <-> off some times)
• Some Cameras has a Menu where You must select DV-out to get it to work
• Camera connected to "charger" (mains adaptor) - not just on battery
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Sorry to say it is to easy to turn the 6-pin end of the FW-cable 180 deg wrong.
This is lethal to the A/D-chip in the Camera = needs an expensive repair.
(Hard to find out - else than import/export to another Mac ceased to work
everything else is OK e.g. recording and playback to TV)
A/D-box
• Is the dip-switches set right ?
• Set to same standard as recorded/editing e.g. NTSC 29.97fps or PAL 25fps
• Try resetting it
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• Daisy Chaining most often doesn’t work (some unique cases - it’s the only way that work (some Canon Cameras ?))
Try to avoid connecting Camera <--> external HD <--> Mac but import directly to the Mac then move
the Movie project to dedicated external hard disk.
• FireWire-port - Can be re-setted by - Turn off Mac and disconnecting Mac from Mains/Power for 20-30 minutes
External device’s (hard disk’s)
• Should be FireWire as USB/USB2 performs badly and so does Airport or Net-work connected ones too.
• MUST BE - Mac OS Extended formatted - UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange - DO NOT WORK for video due to 4Gb barrier.
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• Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk ? Please specify the amount of free space.
(Other hard disks don't count)
I go for a minimum of 25Gb free space for 4x3 SD Video - and my guess is 5 times more for 16x9 HD ones
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• GarageBands fix - Close iMovie, Open GarageBand, Play some notes, Close GB and iMove can now be OK
• 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 ?
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