Importing mini dv movie into iMovie09 with USB

My Sony DCR-HC24 mini dv camera only has a USB port which means when I connect it to my mac book pro using iMovie09, it does not recognise the video camera so I can not import anything. Any ideas? Is it as simple as buying a USB to fire wire cable or hub? Thanks

Your camera does have a FireWire out port - see this Sony article:
http://www.sony.co.uk/product/sdh-minidv/dcr-hc24e
Sony calls this port iLINK (DV out). MiniDV can be imported to iMovie only when the camera is connected by FireWire (iLINK or IEE1394) - USB will not work for importing miniDV. You need either a 4 pin to 6 pin cable or a 4 pin to 9 pin cable , depending on whether your Mac has a FW400 or FW800 port.
Look for a port on your camera labelled DV - that is probably the FireWire connection point.
John

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