My thought on this is that iMovie will not actually control your VCR as it does a DV camera, so did you press the record button on the VCR before starting the export? Just a thought Gerhard Kuhn suspice at hay.net P.S. I have often looked for complex answers to problems when the simple ones would have done the trick. On Monday, July 14, 2003, at 09:41 PM, Mac McMahon wrote: > My iMovie even tells me that a camera is connected . (a minor miracle) > I've > checked the connections till im blue in the face and they seem to be > ok . > But when I export my Imovie to camera (to VHS Video tape machine ) the > video > comes out as having not recorded at all. Is there a need for more > power? I > don¹t have an auxiliary power supply hooked to the ForMac . Is there > perhaps > enough to make the lights work , but not enough to complete the > transfer? Or > is my old VCR just too out of date (it's about 10 - 12 years old) >