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So I had the same problem when I bought my fs200 and it drove me nuts until I stumbled across a forum somewhere on the web. I have a MB Pro with iLife 09 and am running 10.6.2 but also ran it on leopard. Start with iLife open. The main trick is that you MUST have the camera plugged into a power source and of course need the usb cable connected.
Then hit the 'camera - play' button on the bottom right of the view screen, toggle over to printer/pc, and then iLife will recognize the camera and ask if you want to import. Once you get here, iLife works flawlessly. I'm kinda recounting these buttons off the top of my head so they may not be exact, but again, once you have iLife open and the camera plugged into a power source, everything should work just fine. As a side note, the hitch that I have is that I cannot find a way to disconnect the camcorder after downloading. The mac doesn't show an external drive to eject and the camera doesn't have a way to do it since it locks once connected. I'm scared to keep 'pulling the plug' but haven't found any other way so far. Seattlemac, I'm not sure if you figured this out yet but I had the same problem.
I noticed if I opened a new finder window (using the smiling mac icon in my dock) my canon camera was listed under devices (two if I have an additional sd card in) along with the standard eject buttons. If you click the eject button (the card one first, then the usb seems to work best) you can safely disconnect your camera's usb cable and power off the camera. If you set your finder preferences to show external drives on the desktop, then you could probably just drag the canon icon to the trash to safely eject. I hope this helps. OK, I had the same problem. Also the software update with Apple says that your software is up-to-date, but it really is no. Neither Apple or Canon was able to help me much, but I got it finally resolved.
Canon does not make any special drivers - the Firewire / USB connection to the Mac becomes your driver. If your Canon camera shows 'DV In' on the camera display then the camera is communicating with your computer. You need to 'force' your computer in recognize the camera. Here is what you do: Create a new Admin User account on your Mac ( just call it 'Temp' with the password 'temp' for example) - Make sure to give it 'Admin Privileges' and set you computer to 'Display login window as: 'List of users' under the Login Options in the bottom left corner of you Accounts window.
Then disconnect your Canon camera and all cables from your Mac and turn off the camera and your computer. OK, this is important! - You MUST connect your Canon camera to its power supply (not just battery) and then turn it to 'play mode' not recording, but you don't want to have it actually play anything, just turn your switch to the that 'on' position.
Reconnect all your cables and turn on your computer. You will be prompted to log in your accounts - select the 'Temp' account and type in your password.
The new login will force the software update and it will actually find a software update for iLife, even though your other login could never find one and you always received the message that your software was up-to-date. Go into iMovie as well and you will find your camera to be connected.
Unfortunately, this did not work. I turned on the camcorder & computer. Everything is plugged in as instructed. When I logged in using the new User 'Temp', the camera shows up as a driver, 'No Name' on the desktop. I proceed to iMovie and am able to downloaded the video on to the computer. But once the movie is downloaded to the computer, the 'No Name' driver disappears and is nowhere to be found.
What happened? The only way I seem to be able to disconnect the camcorder is to shut down the computer, and then hold down the power button on the camcorder. Then it will disconnect. But would rather not have to shut down my computer each time I want to disconnect the camera. Apple Footer. This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only. Apple may provide or recommend responses as a possible solution based on the information provided; every potential issue may involve several factors not detailed in the conversations captured in an electronic forum and Apple can therefore provide no guarantee as to the efficacy of any proposed solutions on the community forums.
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Hi, not sure if I am in the right place or not but here goes. I am looking for a video camera to take mostly home movies, my son's lacrosse games, kids' Christmas concerts etc. I was looking at some models today and the salesperson told me that the Sony's are not compatible with Mac's. Is this true? I am looking to spend up to $700.
I liked the ones that had 40x zoom (good to see the net from the back of the arena). I also don't know if its better to get a video camera with a hard drive or a memory card.
I don't anticipate that I would do a lot of editing but I think I would like to edit games and concerts, etc, to the shorter movies to send to the grandparents. Any suggestions, thanks for the advice. Oh, whether you should get one with a hard drive is a matter of opinion. I've heard pros and cons about hard drive versus tape. Some people say that if you're recording a long, action packed event like a sports event, a hard drive would be better because you don't have to worry about switching out tapes. On the other hand, if you're on a trip, the hard drive can fill and you have no way to download it, unless you have your computer with you. You also take a chance of the hard drive failing before you can get your footage off of it.
But one of the technicians at the Sony service center near where I live, said that this isn't an issue for him because he downloads her footage within a day or two. If the intention is to edit the material from the camera then buy a DV tape based camera, using your price range. The files on a hard drive camera are highly compressed (lowering quality) and to enable the files to be edited they will have to be converted (lowering quality again) These files usually have issues in transfering to the Mac. Hard Drive cameras are designed to shoot and playback, they are not designed for easy editing. Using a tape besed camera the video can be captered in DV native format direct from the camera using a Firewire connection.
OK I am more confused than ever. The two cameras that were recommended have 10-12 x optical zoom and I am looking for at least 38x. Every store I have been to doesn't know if the Sony's are compatible with Macs. I really like the touch screen on the Sonys. In particular I am looking at the DCR-SR42. Panasonic offers a 42x optical zoom (SDR-H50) but I found the controls hard to use. I dont want a tape based camera as I don't want to have to replace tapes in the middle of games etc.
Help 🙂 Carla. Are there any decent flash based camcorders, particularly standard definition ones, that record in a format that imovie or final cut (either version) can read natively and not have to convert or transcode the movies? I'd really much prefer to avoid tape, but do the compatibility issues with the digital file formats really make it easier to just get a DV camera? But then Apple seems to be moving away from firewire so getting a camera that needs that seems to be unwise. So any recommendations for cameras that don't require transcoding (are there ANY)?
Are there certain specs that mean compatibility or is it just finding if someone tested the camera? I'd love to find a list somewhere of all the known cameras that are imovie/fcp compatible but haven't found one yet. Apple Footer.
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