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Goodness me - I am trying to archive my old VHS tapes, and have tried many things so far. I have a camcorder by Sony (Sony Handycam DCR-PC110E) that can act as a Analog to Digital convertor and have checked all the right settings for it in accordance with the manual that states it can be used as such, so that is good (enabling analog to digital output and making display LCD etc). I was linking the VCR to the camcorder with the three red, yellow and white plugs (through a scart adapter) and hooking them up to the jack of the camcorder (like the diagrams I have seen indicate) and the VHS playback appears in the camcorder window when the VCR is playing - so far so good. However, when connecting the camcorder to my iMac via the firewire cable supplied by the SONY camcorder it cannot find the incoming source. The message iMovie gives me is that there is no cassette to be found. I've rebooted and tried all ways of switching on and off for days. Then I put an old DV cassette in the camcorder and iMovie then asked me to start the import - but of course it plays the cassette in the camcorder and bypasses the VCR playback that is streaming into the camcorder. iMovie can find the camcorder, I have been able to save stuff from the odd DV cassette I have, so why does the analog to Digital function not seem to work when every web site (and the Sony manual) say that it does? I was using s-video cables as well as the red yellow and white from the VCR into the camcorder to begin with but that rendered the incoming playback black and white (even though they were mulitcolour s-video cables). I seem to be doing everything right and am loathe to buy an ADS Tech Pyro or Elgato Eye thingy when I have all the kit and cables I need in triplicate! I have looked at the iMovie help to see if I need to find an incoming setting etc. but I seem to be doing things right. Does anybody have any advice that they can offer? Of course I have now resorted to telling salespeople at Maplin and MicroAnvika that they should sell scart to usb or scart to firewire cables or stock analog to digital converters that are Mac compatible. They all just look at me as if I am speaking a foreign language....