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Monterey 12.3 Broke The Mini-DV Connection

Prior to updating to 12.3 I was able to connect my Panasonic Mini-DV video camera with a DV --> Firewire and then firewire to thunderbolt to usb c adapters and import video from tapes into iMovie. Since updating to 12.3 iMovie no longer will recognize the camera as a device when going to import. I spent about two hours troubleshooting this with Applecare support with no solution. It appears the update has made it non-usable in this sense. I'm thinking an update to iMovie needs to be done to make this work again perhaps? At any rate, if anyone has experienced this and has a fix I'd love to hear it! Using a 2020 Macbook Air.

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.3

Posted on Mar 18, 2022 12:59 AM

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Barry Felberg

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Posted on Jun 8, 2022 5:29 AM

Many thanks for all your suggestions, The problem was the Thunderbolt 2 to Thunderbolt 3 adapter bought from Amazon. I purchased an Apple cable from the Apple Store today and the camera is finally recognised. In this case spend more than triple the $ on an Apple original adapter.

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Rich839

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Mar 22, 2022 12:48 PM in response to Ian R. Brown

Ian,

A very nice primer on how to install a secondary operating system on the Mac. Thanks for posting that.

-- Rich

Mar 24, 2022 1:08 PM in response to the_d_fresh

Same Problem here - Late 2015 21.5" iMac, worked till 12.3

now detects the cameras and lists them with speeds etc in system but does not see them in any software - Premiere Pro, imovie or Quicktime

Apr 11, 2022 1:50 PM in response to the_d_fresh

Just bought the set of Thunderbolt to Firewire Adapters and having the very same problem on my Mac Studio and 12.3.1. Apple, please fix this!

Apr 13, 2022 9:54 AM in response to sdflyguy

The fix for this issue will be with us very soon!!

Apr 14, 2022 4:00 AM in response to Rpbvice

Trust me don’t throw anything away, the fix is around the corner ( can’t say anymore)

Apr 21, 2022 1:54 PM in response to Sikh

What iOS version was on the old Mac? Is the iMovie version a factor in this problem?

May 8, 2022 8:41 AM in response to sdschramm

Unfortunately I can't say on this forum

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Rich839

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Apr 26, 2022 9:37 AM in response to Chemguy1

I keep the automatic update feature turned off on my Mac to avoid unwanted updates. I prefer to manually update.

-- Rich

May 8, 2022 8:40 AM in response to Chemguy1

Hopefully enough users have reported problem to MAC OS fEEDBACK and will result in a fix.

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Rich839

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May 2, 2022 10:51 AM in response to Geoff Mountfield

Where did you get the information that the issue is fixed?

-- Rich

May 2, 2022 11:56 AM in response to Rich839

I have tested it

Geoff

Rich839

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May 2, 2022 1:08 PM in response to Geoff Mountfield

Got it. Understood.

-- Rich

Rich839

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May 5, 2022 8:23 AM in response to M_MacG

Thanks. That's helpful to know that its an OS issue.

-- Rich

May 8, 2022 8:42 AM in response to the_d_fresh

Is this a cert guys cos it was a ***** to roll back to Big Sur?

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May 10, 2022 10:26 AM in response to the_d_fresh

Ops, so sad! I got same problem.

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