If your Mac doesn't see your firewire camcorder, you might give this a try

If this issue has been resolved, please accept my apology.
The first time and ONLY the first time I connected my Sony DCR-TRV17 camcorder to the firewire port on my Leopard MacBook (Oct 2008 I think), iMovie recognized it. After that time, the MacBook never recognized it again. After lots of fooling around I gave up and just imported the tapes into my eight year old iMac running Tiger, saved them to an external hard drive and connected that to the MacBook.
A few weeks ago I was thinking about the problem again and an idea came to me… what if I play the camcorder tapes on the TV screen and send the A/V outputs back to the laptop? I did some searching and found a device that transmits analog signals through a USB connector. I bought an iGrabber on Amazon for $35 and it works… no need to connect the camcorder to the Mac… you connect it to the TV! The iGrabber connects to the Mac's USB port.
1. connect a cable from the camcorder to your TV inputs so it plays your tape on the TV screen
2. connect the iGrabber's included A/V cable to the outputs on your TV
3. connect the iGrabber's included USB cable to the Mac's USB port
4. run the iGrabber app (there are settings to be configured)
5. start playback on the camcorder and the Record function in the app
6. I chose to capture the video to a 1TB hard drive in MPEG-4 format
When you finish capturing, open iMovie and import your video from the hard drive.

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