Help with cable conversion (2009 iMac, 2019 iMac with Sony MiniDV TR19)

[MrTk]

Folks:

I have many older home movies recorded from my Sony MidiDV. I've successfully been able to connect the older camcorder to my iMac 2009 via a Firewire 9 pin to firewire 4 pin (cable picture below). I can see the camera in iMovie and record movies off of directly into iMovie.

However, I would like to use my new iMac (for obvious reasons). Clearly no firewire on the back, only USB 3 and Thunderbolt 3.

Is there a cable that will still work with the sony? The attach picture is the cable I'm currently using. I do believe that is a firewire on both ends, just a 9 pin on the Mac side and 4 pin on the camera.

I don't believe there is a 4pin FireWire IEEE 1394 to Thunderbolt 3 cable. I do see there is a 4pin Firewire to USB. My worry is would that still allow the iMac 2019 to see the camera in iMovie the same way the 2009 sees it via a Firewire to Firewire? Again, when I'm on my 2009 I can go into iMovie and under "Import Media" I can see my Sony-DV shows up as a source. No conversion tool needed.

Thoughts?

 

[barbu]

There is a FireWire 800 > Thunderbolt 2 adaptor. Then you’d need TB2 > TB3.
Whether your device would work as expected through all that, hard to say. I don’t see why not, though.