IMovie 6 isn't recognizing the camcorder
I have tried it with two different cameras now and two different fire wires and each time the iMovie screen says "no camera connected". I took the camcorder to my office and it is working fine with iMovie 9. any ideas as to what is going on?
Welcome to Discussions, smarty30
what is going on?
Troubleshooting needed to determine.
Does one of these help?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iMovie/6.0/en/imv1041.html
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iMovie/6.0/en/imv1128.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1924
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iMovie/6.0/en/imv1005.html
If nothing there helps, post back whether you are using same camcorder(s) and cables with iMovie 9 as with iMovie HD 6.
If NO Firewire device properly connects with your iMovie HD 6 Mac, reset FW:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1317
EZ Jim
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