firewire compatibility

Hi dudes, trying my first HD edit on FCP studio 1 using a Sony HVR-
V1
With correct capture settings enabled I can see the camera, control it but when I ask it to 'capture now' it cannot see any HDV and FCP crashes out.
Do I have to be using a Sony firwire cable just to eliminate this as a gremiln.
Peter

Well for ----s sake, what do you know, FCP doesn't 'support' this camera and Sony support cannot 'find' this model, Jesus you need to have eyes in the back of your head, no matter how much work you put in researching this stuff you still get bit on the bum.
Anyone got any idea how I can get the footage off this camera to attempt to edit it.
Tried QT pro and it doesn't see the camera.
Peter

Thanks Douglas, I'm afraid I threw a bit of a wobbler. I've been troubleshooting FCP and cameras, decks and macs since version 1 and I've got all the presets, FCP and camera, as they should be. Upshot to this is that I can capture using AIC but it produces massive files and I'd still like to get to the bottom of what's going on. As always I hate leaving technical issues unresolved as they come back to haunt you.
I used DVDxDV to capture and there were no problems except that it changed the aspect ratio when I exported it as QT and produced a 3.5gb file from an original m2t file of 150mb. I took the m2t file through Mpegstreamclip and exported it as advised in your book and made a 400mb file with a 1080 50 i preset ( apple photojpeg 75% ) with infinitely better playability in FCP and no visible drop in quality.
So FCP will see the camera but so far won't capture with a HDV 1080 50i preset. There's something in this preset that stops FCP seing the HDV footage from this camera.
Peter