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Camera connection problem
I’ve been trying to connect my Sony hdr-hc5 to my imac but final cut nor imovie can detect it. i have tried hooking the camera up to my pc and it works perfectly fine so it’s not the camera, and i have bought 2 cables thinking it was the first one being faulty. I have looked through help topics for the same problem but nothing seems to be the fix. i have the camera hooked up directly to the back of the imac with a 9 to 4 pin fire wire cable. any help will be greatly appreciated.
i have an iMac 3.2 GHz intel core i3-Mac OS X (10.6.5) -
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Fred,
Try: Switching off your computer and camera, connecting up camera and computer with your FireWire cable, then switching on your camera then switching on your computer. Once the computer is up and running, go to Apple-Menu>About This Mac. Click on the More Info… button, and you should have the System Profiler window open in a second or two. Open up the Hardware list if it is hidden on the left column, and click on the FireWire item. On the right side you should see FireWire Device Tree and FireWire Bus with disclosure triangle. Your camera should appear in this list. If it does not, then it is possible that you have blown up the FireWire port on your camera or that on the computer.
Do you have any other FireWire devices that you can use to check that the computer FireWire port is OK?
Warning: Most of the time, a blown FireWire port won’t kill stuff plugged into it, but it can. So don’t plug critical stuff like your only external hard drive into this port when checking.
Bill Lee
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hmm that didn’t work either. i’m guessing i’ll have to contact apple about this as everything is pointing the a blown fire wire port. and this is the only fire wire item i have to test out besides getting a friend to bring his camera over. but thank you for your help.
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