Sony pdw f330 and imac

Hi,
I have a sony pdw f330 and have just purchase a new imac and fcp x but can not get the imac to connect to the camera. I have downloaded sony xdcam transfer utility, purchase a 1394 to firewire 800 cable ( there is no 1394 input on the imac) but when launching xdcam transfer it shows FAM driver not installed and does not find the camera. I have no problems on my mac pro with fcp 6 importing the media. Any suggestions would be appreciated
regards
Noel

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