On Friday, May 16, 2003, at 11:25 PM, Sam Hotchkiss wrote: > While I was importing some footage into imovie today (sniff sniff, > I've lost my $1000 final cut pro cd ;() my camera's power adapter got > unplugged, causing it to turn off (its a JVC DVL820U), which caused > imovie to lock up my whole comp-- totally unresponsive. snip > Any ideas before I go buy applecare tomorrow? > -- > Sam try something like a Hard drive on the Firewire port and make sure the port is ok. next do you have a 2nd camcorder or a neighbors you can try to see if its a camera FW port problem. this will eliminate the FW ports being good or not. If all is ok try deleting the preference file for final cut pro (you may need to reinput your serial number not sure here). still no go run disk warrior, after that find that find final cut pro disk (or the backup you made, you made a backup didnt you?) and reinstall. frank farwell