HDV Camcorder not recognized in FCPX/iMovie/Quicktime in Monterey (12.3)

I spoke to Apple’s iMovie support and macOS support team on the phone yesterday. iMovie has divided to discontinue DV tape capturing and since macOS format moved to 64bit systems, the compatibility with DV camcorders was not taken into account. They told me the best is to keep my old MacBook as interface for capturing my tapes and then transfer the files.

You can install Big Sur on your Mac fairly easily without removing Monterey.

Create a new small partition (say 50GB?) on your Mac using Disk Utility and install Big Sur on that.

You then open your Mac using the new partition.

Details can be found if you do a Google search.

Installing macOS on a separate APFS volume - Apple Support

I also just updated to Monterey 12.4 and say my ADVC 110 is now recognized and can import VHS or Camcorder tapes into Final Cut Pro. Thanks to Apple support fixing this issue.

On yesterday's Monterey update, hdv tape camera still not recognized in iMovie. I am on a M1 Mac Mini and in December I transferred some hdv tapes from my Sony Z1 in iMovie and I was so impressed by how it was so easy and the quality of it was so good. My model of camera is not in the list anymore, in fact, there is not any tape camera of any brand listed on Apple’s list of compatible cameras, to my knowledge when I last checked.

This is not the first time that this problem appeared according to my readings on internet.

I will try to go back to Big Sur on a ssd external with a partition for it.

It seems to be the only solution until Apple reversed its doing in Monterey.

I have search many option to find a card recorder that I could use instead of tapes on my hdv camera, but there does not seem to be any anymore?

After doing some testing on three Macs, two older with differing OS versions and new 12.3.

Result - older versions work as usual.

New Monterey 12.3 is a complete NO SHOW over firewire.

Seems like an OS bug to me. 😩​👎​

Al

That machine came with Big Sur. It will run that OS installed on a separate drive. Used an SSD if you can.

Even better! 👍

How to get old versions of macOS – Apple Support (UK)

Eventually you may want to get rid of the extra partition/volume . . .

Add, delete or erase APFS volumes in Disk Utility on Mac – Apple Support (UK)

Has the Mac with the issue have FULL Disc Access in the Security settings?

Al

The OS has just had an update that is supposed to cure the problem.

Download it now.

Final Cut Pro NEEDS to have Full Disk Access.

Maybe this won’t fix the present problem with your HDV camera but you need to grant that permission, or FCP will not be able to access camera cards or external drives. It must be there and have the box checked.

I’m going through the same exact thing right now. My Sony HDV deck will show up on “system report” after a reboot on my 16 M1 Max, but not inside FCPX. Weird, but I see is recognized under “FireWire”

so I’m forced to use a 2012 MBP to do the transfer to an external, and then connect the external to my M1Max and do the editing.

Did you find anything else on how to make it work? Maybe a different program?

thank you!

The process should be as follows:- Open the Big Sur installer on your normal Monterey Mac and when given the option to install, select the new partition as the destination. Do not try to put the installer on the new partition. . . . it needs to be on Monterey in order to work.

You are not trying to install over Monterey but on the new partition so your Mac will end up with 2 separate Operating Systems on 2 partitions (volumes)..