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It will be identified by a little 'lightning bolt' icon beside it. If it does, then you may be able to connect your camera to that port via a firewire or Thunderbolt cable, and capture your footage. This link contains an image identifying the various ports on a MacBook. Last edited by David W.

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Richardson; at If so, you may be able to find a firewire ExpressCard and install it, giving you the firewire ports you need. Try this. Get a Firewire cable that fits your camera that has a full size FW port on the other end. Essentially using the external drive as a bridge. KPSR, Inc.

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Attachment Originally Posted by gkantziper. If all else fails, as long as your camera has either an S-Video or composite output, you could use a USB video capture device to get the footage into your computer.

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Expect a drop in quality though. This also works flawlessly. You need a FireWire cable that has 9 pins on one end for one of the WD Studio's FW ports and 4 pins on the other end for connection to your camcorder's FW port.


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The 4 pin end is a mini FW plug designed to fit the camcorder. But this adapter probably uses the standard plugs - 9 pin to 6 pin. The 6 pin end won't fit the port on your camcorder to the best of my knowledge.

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It also comes with a FW to adapter - but the FW end is the 6 pin. See this site it's an Australian one - part way down the page you will see a cable for FW to - 9 pin to 4 pin.


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Jul 12, 8: One other thing I should mention. By connecting your camcorder via the WD Studio's FW port using an appropriate cable or adapter , you can import to iMovie Events on your local hard drive the Mac's drive. You are not restricted to importing to the external drive. Having said this, I'm not sure if you can import to a drive that may be dedicated as a Time Machine backup drive.

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But the Time Machine drive should allow a "pass through" to your Mac's internal drive, which I think is what you are wishing to achieve. With the Maxtor, I can import either to the Maxtor or the Mac's drive. So, my arrangement is somewhat different to yours. Communities Contact Support. Sign in.

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