After 3 days of trouble shooting, several cable hardware and cable tests. The Firewire port was inoperative on this new machine. Got a new one and back at editing flawlessly now. Thx for all the input.
The Firewire cable is fed directly to the camera (not daisy chained or linked otherwise). I don’t understand what’s happening here. Hope someone else is having the same issues with their new iMac and can find a solution for this…
This is what I’m saying. It works on older machines with Firewire 400 and not on the latest iMacs using Firewire 800. Anyone else can help me out with this?