Please Help!!! FCE won't recognize HV-20

Hello, I tried to capture some video and FCE won't recognize the canon hv-20. I tried to go from the hdv/dv output on the camorder to the firewire port on the computer and also from the usb to usb and nothing. On the easy setup I have dv-ntsc selected. I have a macbook osx 10.4 so it should work. Any help would be great. Thanks!!

Look in the Easy Setup for "HDV-Apple Intermediate Codec".
There may be several, so if you don't know which to use, try them all until you find one that works.
It's only going to take a minute or so to find which one recognises your camera.
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