The aforementioned laptop didn’t have a firewire port! After lots of searching and research, I found a USB to Firewire Adapter but, as awesome as this holy grail was, it still didn’t help me because my camera is a Sony and it absolutely will not work with anything but a bone fide iLink cable. Fortunately, usbfirewire.com has a risk-free money-back guarantee. From beginning to end, their customer service was awesome.
So I finally bit the bullet and upgraded my eMac. Installed 2 GB of RAM, bought 1 TB of storage and upgraded the OS to Leopard. Sadly, the latest version of iMovie needs an intel processor but I’m happy just finally be able to edit some video. Eventually, I’ll get me some Final Cut Express.
