iLink Cable

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the shorter ones you get at any PCstore from 3$ up.....

... thanks for coming back and using the marking function of this forum!!

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that is NOT true...at least not for me. I am so irritated that after spending over a thousand for this camera they fail to tell us that the ilink cable is the only way to get film into the computer or any other recording device.

Both my G5 and 5 month old DVD burner will only read the signal from fire wire momentarily then loose the signal.

Through I movie the camera is seen but no image is available.

Any suggestions?

After getting an Ilink cable it looks like I will also have to get a card for my Mac to to read it too!

Anyone who has one please let me know before I return the camera. I am not too interested in upgrading hundreds of dollars for this camera when there are others that work fine.

Thanks

sahz,

"after spending over a thousand for this camera"

Which camera would that be?

Matt

Sony HDR-HC3 for $1.4K after tax

You really can't find another $3 for the cable?

No, you will not need another graphics card if you are running a G5, but it might help if you told us which G5 you have, size of hard disk, and amount of RAM.

A little research before you purchased the camera might have been useful.

Klaus, I mentioned - in another thread - that instead of struggling on and on trying to get a camcorder to import into a tower Mac, several people have bought a separate FireWire card. I think that's what the message (above) is about.

Those who've bought a separate FireWire card use that for importing, and have reported no problems getting their camcorder recognised.

But that's just a simple remedy for a tower-case Mac. [..I can't remember the old name for them before 'Mac Pro'..]

Thanks David, I obviously missed that point, being unaware that older Tower Macs did not have a firewire connection already built in.

David,

I can't remember the old name for them before 'Mac Pro'

Power Macs.

I remember when my now humble dual 1.8 G5 was just about state-of-the-art. No it's just forgotten.

Sigh....

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Matt

Thanks guys for the info...I got it under control now...
Peace
Shaz

They did (do) have built-in FireWire (..thanks, Matt; 'PowerMac', of course!..): older ones with FW sockets at the back, newer ones at both back and front, but people did (do) sometimes have trouble getting their camcorder recognised.

Many have reported that buying and inserting a separate FW card in a spare card socket in the tower case, and using THAT for connecting a camera, has solved their problem.

[NOTE: I have a tower 'PowerMac', but have never had this recognition problem.]

dont waste the money on Firewire, or Ilike, I use a USB with my sony DVD handycam and it works fine.

Vinny,

Please explain.

Are you saying you import directly into iMovie using USB from a DVD camera?

I don't see how that's possible.

Matt

Firewire is usually more effective when importing film or large files...firewire is under $15...not all cameras have USB capabilities--none of mine do.