O.K., heres the deal. im borrowing my friend VX2000 to import some footege onto my comuter via FCP3. so i connect the camera using my firewire but FCP say that it cant detect any firewire devices. so i open up I-movie to see if i have the same problem and of course, i do. to make sure it wasnt just the VX2000, i hooked my DV8 camera up and i got the same problem. to make sure it wasnt the cord i went out and bought a new FireWire cable, but i still have the same problem. and my firewire ports arnt broken on my G4 since i am able to use my ipod via firewire. so what im trying to say is PLEASE HELP! im going insane over this and i wont be able to get any sleep til its fixed.
ANYTHING WILL HELP,
Fab 4 Films
fab4films@yahoo.com

first, is there a firewire HD attached to another port?

sometimes these have caused conflicts for me.

also, did you search around the apple support boards? someone may have convered this over there already

did you try it on both your FW ports? On one computer I had one of the ports go bad and had to replace the logic board. Try unplugging your iPod cradle and using that port to plug in the camcorder.

yeah i have tryed both ports (both of them dont work with my camera but both work with my ipod). and i dont own a firewire drive so thats out of the question. also ive been looking on apple for help but i havent seen anything that has helped.
PLEASE KEEPON HELPING
Fab 4 Flims

have you successfully dumped video from either camcorder before? I know this is a simple part of the process but you do have the camcorder set to vtr mode correct?

yeah the cameras were on VTR. and the last time i used both cameras was about 2 months ago and they worked fine.

Here's some more thoughts I had:

1. Go through the camcorder's menu and make sure the firewire port isn't disabled. ...not that I have ever seen that option on cameras before.

2. Trash FCP's Prefs

3. reinstall FCP and/or imovie (do a clean install so any drivers/helpers are replaced).

4. update to latest OS

5. see if any other app can recognize the camera (like iChatAV)

6. And, as a last resort you can always do a clean install of the OS (after backing up all your files, of course) If it's a software thing, this'll probably fix it. But this is also the biggest pain in the ass.