We did all that. It's a G5 iMac also. Sorry for my poor writing in the original post after I read it I felt embarrassed at how poor my grammar was. Richard On 2/3/06 3:50 PM, "Richard Clark" <mawgadog at tin.it> wrote: > I would try making sure all your programs are closed other than > imovie and also disconnect other firewire devices. > On Mar 2, 2006, at 9:33 PM, Richard Gilmore wrote: > >> I've got a weird problem. I've got iMovie HD 5.0.2 (111) on a PPC >> iMac with >> 10.3.9 and a Canon Elura 70 Mini DV. When you connect it to the >> computer and >> iMovie it sees the camera and you can control the camera play >> etc...from >> iMovie but no video shows up on the screen it stays blue but if you >> look on >> the camera you can see the video playing. If you try to import >> something >> nothing happens. Now we've got another G5 with the same version of >> iMovie >> and when you plug the camera in there it works just fine. Any ideas on >> what's going wrong? >> >> Thanx >> >> Richard > > _______________________________________________ > X4U mailing list > X4U at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984