Help with capturing on final cut

I have been using Final Cut Pro for a couple years and have never had this problem before but now im stumped. When I plug my firewire from the computer into my camera and try to capture it tells me: "Attempt to capture video without a video device selected. Please select a video device in your capture presets and try again". So I got into Audio/video settings-then under capture presets and i do have DV NTSC 48 KHz selected. Which i think is what i have always used.
I have used two different firewires with the same result, i can capture into imovie just fine so its not the camera. Also when trying to capture on the bottom of the capture window it says VTR OK which usually means i wont have a problem...i thought.....please help!!!

Is this camera capable of HD? If so, make sure the output settings on the camera are set for SD. Or, conversely, change your capture settings to HD.

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