Can you upload images to imovie without having to convert files
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i have the same problem, my video clips from a disney cruise dont transfer to my mac.
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I personally used iMovie on my Mac. I couldn't open it with any other application. I couldn't use the files with windows either. Not very happy with that, but it does take good video. All I can suggest is iMovie.
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It's very simple guys,1.Just start up iMovie2.Just plug it in and choose "USB CONNECT" on the Handycam3.Just Import and blah blah blah ;)
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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 purchased the HDRPJ260 a while back and have a Mac laptop. The movies do download directly into iMovie. We love the camera as well, works great. The quality is good enough for most home movies I feel.
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Any non-linear editor that supports .mts files. Even if they don't, there are tools you can find to convert MTS to AVI or whatever.
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This is my second response to this discussion. I have a 3 year old white macbook, but I upgraded my OS this summer from imovieHD (06) to imovie 09. Trust me, the camera works natively with any imovie from 08 on. You have to open imovie and click on the camera button. If you either connect the camera or use a card reader (which came with my memory card) the files will just be sitting there ready to go, no conversion necessary.
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Just plug in to an open usb port and open iMovie. Then click on the camera button and the computer will, after a slight delay, show the clips on the camera. You can then import all, or any individual clips you want. Very easy. You do need a recent version of iMovie, since the older versions did not handle the avchd format that the camera uses.
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I haven't tried it but with converters you can do about anything. Apple products in my experience are the easiest to use any kind of video and convert it on the way in but like I said I haven't tried it.
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Yes you can, just be careful the type of files you want to move to it. I read that raw files can be a problem.
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I just bought this camera, plugged it in today to my Macbook Pro, used the dv/firewire cable. It works fine with iMovie with no tweaking. But downloading is in actual time, so slow. just rewind your tape, put the little wheel on view and hit import.
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You pretty much can't. DVD-based recordings are in a completely different format than what you can use in iMovie. In order to translate the video into DV, you have to download a Quicktime update, an MPEG translator, and a semi-legal DVD ripping software program....I just returned my camera and got a Canon miniDV camera, and I'm very happy.... The sony was nice though.
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I just hook up the usb cable to the iMac and import directly into iMovie. Works great!
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Please help as I'm still a little new to the Mac world. I dragged the files to iMovie but their just blank--I hear the audio but not visual. I did update to iLife 08. Would the DivX plugin help?
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Yes - and with iMovie (at least the newer ones) you can actually import directly from the camera into iMovie- I can basically do a 90min soccer game and have highlights out that night---
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If you have VLC player on your iMac it won't matter. I use my MacBook Pro and just slide the SD card in and voila.
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No - not if you want high quality video! The edges of anything moving will be slightly fuzzy. The Sony interlacing format isn't perfectly compatible with iMovie. I've spoken with Sony and with Apple about this, but there's no resolution yet that I know of. My solution is to import the video using Adobe Premier Elements.