Importing from Sony TRV33E to IMovie

I brought my camcorder with my firewire converter cable to apple store today. I got an excellent support from the guy on the genius bar, but he could not make his macbook and imac in the store to recognise my camera using my cable. When he hooked the camcorder to the macbook, there was no "DV IN" message at all on the camcorder screen. But for imac, the intermittent "DV IN" message was shown on the screen exactly as what I got with mine.

He told me that probably the newer OS X (intel) does not recognise this old camcorder after all. Can anybody confirms this? Do you know someone's imac with OS X 10.6.4 which can detect sony DCR-TRV33E camcorder?

DV IN means that you are using the Sony to record from another Firewire DV device. It is trying to record from the iMac to the camera. You want to go from camera to iMac. (It will only record if you hit the record button on the camera)

Message was edited by: AppleMan1958

I noticed this DV IN message every time I connect the Sony to PC, even before I open any video recording/editor app on PC. I guess this is just the way my SONY tells me that the its firewire port is active.

The fact is my mac doesn't detect my sony through firewire; not in the system profile, not in the iphoto, not in imovie.