Panasonic Camcorder not working

I have connected my Panasonic NV-GS5 to my Mac Notebook with the firewire Cable. Unfortunately nothing happens. It doesn't start automatically as the tutorial says. It looks as if the camcorder is not being recognised. Can anyone help? I'm not sure what to try.

Sandy, It sounds as if you've plugged in a USB cable (..which gives access to the card which has photos on it..) instead of a 4-pin-to-6-pin FireWire/DV/i.Link cable ..which gives access to the video on the tape. (The FireWire cable probably did NOT come with the camera, and you may need to buy one.)
The ends of a USB cable, for feeding photos into your Mac, look like this:
The ends of the necessary 4-pin-to-6-pin FireWire (..also known as DV or i.Link..) cable for feeding video into your Mac look like this:
The big end goes in your Mac, and the small end plugs into the 'DV' socket of your camcorder.

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