Old Sony mini DV HELP

Hey, I have a newer sony with a hard drive and an older one that uses mini dv.
The macbook recognizes the hard drive camera right away, but when I connect the old camera with the mini dv, the macbook wont recognize it?
I put it to the VCR setting and hooked it up through the USB. I then went to "capture" on iMovie 09 and it did not read it for some reason....
Can someone please help me with my old sony camera? thanks!!!

Firewire is a bus which lets you import from the camera at the speed of the tape drive with no interruptions. If you had a solid state camera or a hard drive camera, tape speed would not be in issue, and USB would work fine. USB is not good for tape because you share the bus with all kinds of peripherals like your mouse and keyboard, and you cannot guarantee that you can keep up with the tape. Quality is not an issue either way.
A USB bus is like driving to work. You will have to stop at stop signs and traffic lights, and traffic may be heavy.
A firewire bus is like when the President comes to town and they shut down all the roads to everyone except his motorcade.
When you say you have a HD DV I assume you mean HDV. If so, iMovie handles this fine. It probably imports at anamorphic 1440x1080. If you burn a regular DVD, you are limited to 720x480 (wide) or 640x480 (4:3), so the DVD format will be the limiting factor on your quality.
iMovie can export at up to 1920x1080 resolution so the issue is how do you play it.
You can watch movies on your Mac through QuickTIme Player at up to 1920x1080
You can watch movies on Apple TV (up to 960x540 or 1280x720). (this is what I do)
You can watch movies on a Sony Playstation 3 in up to 1920x1080
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