Can't connect my Panasonic NV-EX3 to new intel imac iMovie

I believe that Panasonic is not compatible with mac's....

check the compatible list on the apple site....
Jeni

Hi, I am trying to get my old Panasonic gs50 to work, too, and have done all of the troubleshooting I can find to no avail.
While I was looking for the answer, I did find this, the answer to your question, I am new too so it was a cool thing to find...

go to finder, go to applications, go to utilities, go to system profiler, go to hardware, go to firewire,
and that will tell you what the comp sees coming into the firewire port.
With my vid cam, it sees nothing!

hope this helps, if you figure out why your cam is not working, let us know, aloha, C

emac Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Here's Apple's advice..

Hello there,

I still have the same problem, since iMovie 5 and now 6 my Panasonic NV-EX3 is not recognized. I have tried all of Apple's workarounds without succes. The only thing that works is with an old version (4) of iMovie. I very much want to use the magic movie option in iMovie 6, so can please someone help me?

I've just discovered I have the same problem. Worked perfectly on my old G3 iBook under Tiger, but the MacBook FireWire device tree just registers it as 'Unknown device' on system profiler and iMovie doesn't even know it's there. How annoying!

I can understand your total frustration. But not all cameras work w/ iMovie6 (even if they once worked in the past). Seems to me that apple focuses on the latest products first (or at least tries to) and when they have time they update compatibility later for older products (depending on popularity /usage of the product). Might be a marketing approach ... I'm not sure. But I know I've run into this situation many times in the past with a small media converter box sony once made (but is no longer manufactured by sony) called a DA1 (analog to FW media converter box) ... The newer version is/was a sony DA2 which had Lanc control as well (also no longer manufactured).

The only thing I can think of that may work is the following work around:

1. Import your footage into iM4 (assuming you have it on your system already).

2. Rename the iMovie 4 folder so it doesn't get updated to the latest version.

3. Now install iM6 separately.

4. Now open the iM4 project from within iM6. The project will get updated automatically. Once you do this you won't be able to go backwards with this project but you will be able to use the magic movie option in iMovie 6....

Hope this answers your question

SDMacuser

Thanks for your response.

Your workaround doesn't work form me. I want to use Magicmovie when importing my video so I can put transitions in right away. iM4 doesn't have that feature. Now I have to import my video in iM4 and than open it in iM6, this is the workaround I'm already using.

you may also want to use the iMovie Feedback on this one. Good luck.

SDMacuser