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jwhyte
Posts: 596 - Karma: 21
I have a macbook
and a sony handycam mini dv
I can't get my computer to recognize my camera
it's plugged in via firewire
and imove 06, imove 08 and final cut express wont recognize it.
please help me
17 years ago
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bsmith01
Posts: 1639 - Karma: 43
Have you tried it with a different computer or cord?  If that doesnt work than your dv port might be dead on the camera.  It has happened to two of my cameras and it sucks.  I havent looked into how much it costs to repair tho, if anyone knows let me know cause I have some footage on dv tapes that I would want.
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miroz
Posts: 10333 - Karma: 3,948
Did you turn the camera on?  That happened to me once but then I turned it on and it worked...does USB not work too?
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EthanJPAskier
Posts: 1668 - Karma: 248
it could be a bad firewire port on the computer. Do other things work in it? that happened to the USB's on my old computer.
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