Phono plug to firewire?

Hello. I have some old video footage on a camcorder with a phono plug outlet. Does anyone have any ideas how I could access the video footage/download it onto the Mac? I don't have a camcorder that can record from the television so I recorded the footage onto a DVD and now realise there is no way to import from a DVD to imovie either. The video footage is precious and I would really like to get it onto the Mac for editing. Help!

Hi,
On this page on my site http://www.ralphjohns.co.uk/page1.html I have link to this page http://www.computervice.com/Products/Dazzle/DV_Bridge/
I have one of these devices.
I am not sure if this page has ever been updated as the price has never changed.
There are similar devices.
7:56 PM Saturday; June 7, 2008

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Joey Johnston wrote:
So I downloaded firewire SDK 2.6 and when I try to open it I get an error saying it can't be open because it's from an unknow developer.
To run the installer, press the Control key and click the installer, and choose Open.
A different way would be to open System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General, press the padlock at the bottom left corner of the System Preferences window, and select "Anywhere" under "Allow applications downloaded from". Finally, run the installer.
That's caused by Gatekepeer > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5290?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

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I picked up an external sony dvd burner for cheap and it worked fine for quite some time. My mini only has a cd burner so it was a perfect solution.
I was using Toast with it just fine.
Out of no where my mini does not pick it up at all. I know the drive works as I've plugged it in via firewire to my G4 ibook.
System profiler shows under FireWire "firewire bus" and the rest is blank. Could it be my port is gone? I dont think I ever plugged that firewire cable out untill i tried figuring out what was going on.
Any help would be great.

Hi
I had a very similar problem. My Mini G4 did not mount any externaal device, Firewire or USB, nor even the in-built CD Drive.
It is now away for repair awaiting a new motherboard (I am told).
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hello,
My audio interface is a TC Electronic Konnekt 24D
my video interface is a Canopus ADVC 110
my hard drives are plugged in firewire too
and I use Final Cut Pro 5.0.4
So, the konnekt is recognized by FCP only when the Canopus is not plugged. And even then, the audio sometimes drop out and sometimes causes the app to crash, so that I have to trash the preferences
When I plug the Canopus, the Konnekt 24D is recognised by OS X but not FCP
I want to use the voice over tool with the konnekt 24D, so what should I do ?
Does 2 firewire audio and video interface can work together ?
If so, maybe I only have a driver problem from TC Electronic.
But if not, I have to change this interface. Let me know if only RME, MOTU, Presonus and Edirol work, as it is said on apple's webpage for hardware compatibility
thanks
eMac G4 1,25 Ghz Mac OS X (10.3.9)
eMac G4 1,25 Ghz 1 Go RAM DDR Mac OS X (10.3.9)

The 1082 does show up as a possible input when I open
the VO tool.
Ok. So an audio interface can be plugged to FCP without crashing the app. Because of the Konnekt driver problem, I wasn't shure of this.
I use my Aja box for export & external monitoring.
All my audio sources run back into the Tascam and I
use the analog mixer in the 1082 to monitor different
sources.
When I view external video, the audio follows it to
keep sync.
that's exactly what I want with other I/O interfaces. I'd like to monitor video with the canopus ADVC 110, and monitor audio with the Konnekt 24D (or another interface if this one is not compatible)
I also imput dailies with a deck or a camera (DV or HDV) but that's not the point here.
I want to imput audio with the Konnekt 24D because of its audio quality. Not audio sync to video dailies. But voice over, in sync with FCP video playback (for me, tha ADVC 110)

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I have a OWC Mercury Pro Dual Layer DVD+/-RW Pioneer DVR-218L External DVD/CD Writer. I have it connected by the firewire 800 port. problem is that it will disappear from the desktop intermittently, i only turn it on when i need to use it and sometimes it never mounts the disc. the only way to bring it back is shut down the drive and computer, unplug the firewire cable from the drive and the power cable from the computer. start up the computer and when it is up i can plug the firewire cable back into the computer and start the drive and presto its back and working. also i can not burn music cds with itunes. i will put in a blank cd and it will mount, itunes will go through the whole burn process and then give the error of "the attempt to burn failed. the device is not accessible, probably because it was removed" it is now gone from the desktop at this point and will not open the tray until i shut it down and power it up, and wont mount on the desk top until i do the unplug procedure. any suggestions?!? Thanks Chris

Hi Chris
Could just be a bad FireWire cable, but it's hard to tell exactly without more testing.
1. Check the drives power supply connections and try another FireWire cable.
2. Still having trouble, test the drive connected to another iMac with FireWire 800.
+(ask your Local Apple Store if you can test it with one of there iMacs)+
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