Does anybody use this with Mac/Apple products? My current filp works just fine. I plug it in &amp; the clips download to iPhoto without any problem.
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If you get it into ITunes there should be no problem using them with apple products.
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What softward did you use? I am wondering if it will work with an apple, using IMOVIE?
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I have an iMac, and have had trouble downloading the videos too! iMovie, iDVD and the enclosed software don't work. I can get the stills, but not the video! argggh!Gretchen
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Dear Dale, I have a MacBook Air and a Nikon DSLR. I got the PixelFlash USB compact flash card reader to make it easy to transfer files from my camera to my laptop without using the camera's USB cable. Now all I have to do is to remove the CF card and use the card reader on my laptop. The main reason I got it was to transfer files to someone else's computer without carrying the camera's USB cord around. So far, it has worked perfectly. It's a good buy, especially for the price and functionality. Best wishes, Ray Honolulu, Hawaii
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I have a macbook pro (older, but running Snow Leopard) and it does download to imovie '09. Found out how to get around Sony trying to sabotage mac users from someone else on the internet, here is his tip: "I was able to import movies from my Sony HDR-CX100 using a USB cable by first opening iMovie, and then pushing "USB Connect" in the first screen, and then "Disk Burn" instead of "USB Connect" in the second screen. This produced an icon, which I did not get when I pushed "USB Connect" in the second screen. Once the icon appeared, the movie showed up on iMovie and I was able to import it." My experience was that only had to hit the "usb connect" to make it happen, not disc burn. But be patient, can take a while for your mac to find the files. I will say, Sony's intentional lack of compatibility with mac is almost enough to make me take the camera back though. I just purchased and may still return, even though it is a great camcorder.
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I have a mac with OSX 10.6.8...the camcorder is not compatible with my mac. However, I use both "Quick Time Player" and "HP Photosmart Studio" (I have a hp printer) for my Canon VIXIA HF and they both work great. By the way, this is a fantastic camcorder.
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My Mac is OS X 10.5.8 with iMovie 8. I received a FS300 for Christmas and just found a post re:uploading to a Mac (I will try it tomorrow after buying a SDHC card - a CLASS 10 speed card was also recommended) Hope this works!!! Getting This To Work With A Mac, November 25, 2010 By Occasional Reviewer "79o3wq48y7h" (Santa Barbara CA) - See all my reviews This review is for: Canon FS300 Flash Memory Camcorder w/41x Advanced Zoom (Silver) (Electronics) It is not obvious how to get video from the camcorder to a Mac: if you read the manual and try to install the software, you will reach the conclusion that it only works in a Windows environment. An email from Canon helped clarify things: just plug the camcorder into your Mac and you will be able to drag and drop the files. The .MOD files will be the ones you want. They need to write their manual more clearly, and make it crystal clear how to get the camcorder to interact with a Mac. Would have saved me 60 minutes, which cost me about as much as the camcorder itself.
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its a widely known issue - macs dont recognise memory card formatted by this camera. it's a joke trying to get files onto iMovie...
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I have a Mac and download all the time. I download to hard drive and not to iPhoto, but I'm sure it would be no problem. I love this camera. It's my second "G", but I have had many Canon cameras and products.
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Good question. I have just purchased the camera, because it has a short Mac section in the manual that seems to indicate that it is compatible. However, now that I've used it, i can't move the video to my Mac. Worthless!
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Thx for the update. We now agree the Flip works just fine w/the Mac, and especially iMovie. We made a bunch of quite amateurish uploads on a fun site that shows how this looks. See www.mytripjournal.com/beartrek10Tom
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Actually, I hooked up my little AipTek video camera to my eMac last night--it's true that iPhoto doesn't recognize videos recorded on it, but if you open its icon on the desktop and go to the video folder, and double-click on the file icon, Quicktime will play it. Good enough for me.
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I have it, I bought it because I remember reading something about it working with a mac but i tried it today and it doesn't work and i have a new macbook pro. i tried to copy an old vhs tape and the mac didn't recognize it and either did imovie or roxio.
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Disregard my previous answer. I did find a firmware update for the Mac. http://support.en.kodak.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/36771/selected/true
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I've only had the camera a couple of days but it seems to work fine with my Mac when connecting using a 4-pin to 6-pin Firewire cable. I haven't done any exhaustive testing but I've been able to connect and get video into iMovie and Final Cut Express. So so far, so good.
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I have had no trouble at all uploading to my Mac from this camera. I have worked in both iMovie and FCPX with no glitches at all.
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Fully compatible! Link to Fuji site here: http://www.fujifilm.com/products/digital_cameras/support/compati_winmac.html My wife and daughter both use the (earlier model) Z100fd (8 megapixel vs the 20's 10MP), and it works fine with the Mac. Opens right up in iPhoto with no problem, tho we usually connect the XD card with an adaptor to the Mac's USB port, which seems to work faster than using the USB cable. Ours are used with an older eMac, which is only USB1, so I'm sure USB2 (which this Fuji uses) on a more current Mac will transfer files a LOT faster! Ours takes great videos, and has pretty much eliminated the use of our DV camcorder for most events. One thing I'd recommend is to NOT import video clips into iPhoto, as the file sizes tend to reduce import speeds to a crawl, as well as slow iPhoto down quite a bit (altho this may not be an issue on a modern Intel-based Mac). Hope this info helps you... we Mac users need to support each other! ;-) BTW- I've added the lime-green z20fd on my OWN wish list here on Amazon!