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How do I import video from DV camera into iMovie on iMac!?

I have a firewire cable and a panasonic PV-GS36 DV camcorder. I try to connect the camcorder to my iMac, but the camera still won't connect to my mac!
How do I connect this video camera to my mac!?
In manual it says this camera is compatible with Mac and I have the specific DV cable for this camera which says it allows it to connect to a mac.
I tried to see if it would connect to the Image Capture application, iPhoto, and the iMovie app. None of them recognized the camcorder.
Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong?

I need an answer SOON please because I need to import the video to my Mac for a school project soon so I can edit the movie we made!!

Thanks

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7), none

Posted on Mar 23, 2011 1:15 PM

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mdee4 Author

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Mar 27, 2011 10:38 AM in response to catspaw

I'm getting the Sony DCR-SX85

Is this work with Mac and iMovie?
I have the latest iMovie version and latest OS X software.

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mdee4 Author

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Mar 27, 2011 7:43 PM in response to mdee4

Don't get the Sony DCR-SX85! The video quality on this camcorder is terrible! It does work with Mac, but the video is blurry even on a screen the same size of an iphone's screen. I had the cam on best video quality option and was in good lighting conditions and it still had very bad video quality. Do not buy that cam!

Nov 4, 2012 9:56 AM in response to Winston Churchill

I have an imac 1 tb computer and I could not understand why the imac did not reconise my DV cam

till I read Winston Churchill's post .. I followed what you had posted then turned my dv camera on play

and the imac picked it up. 🙂 the problem I think is that people still think of windows where it finds the software for you .....

How do I import video from DV camera into iMovie on iMac!?