Canon and Mac? so does the FS300 play nicely (uploads to) with a Mac?
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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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I don't use MACs. However, Canon's web site indicates support for quite a few MAC OS's, including 10.3 Panther,See http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/support/consumer/scanners/canoscan_series/canoscan_lide_30#DriversAndSoftware
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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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Yes, I have this camera and download the photos on my Apple Powerbook all the time. Canon always does a great job of supporting mac users with its bundeled software. If you have iPhoto (which comes with every mac) you don;t need tyo load the Canon software. When you plug the cmaera into the USB port, OS X will recognize it and open up iPhoto where you can import, edit, resize, etc, the photos.
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Hi!It does work with a mac. You just have to go to the Canon website, and from there you can download all of the mac drivers and a whole mac manual comes with it on the website. I just installed it on my iBook and it works great!
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I've tried to upload it to my Mac and it does not recognize the camcorder at all!! It is so frustrating! anyone know what I am doing wrong?
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I've used the DS-20 for a long while with Mac OS X. I'm quite satisfied with it but truth be told, I stopped using the included DSS software to listen/transcribe the recordings on the Mac. Now I just plug in the DS20 into the USB port, see its icon on the desk top as a mounted disk, drag the recorded files from that icon into my own folder set up for transcribed files and that's it. Quicktime plays these files just fine. That way, I have a much simpler Mac OS X experience and no third party software to deal with.
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yes I have a Mac and it syncs and uploads pictures onto the Mac. easy to upload
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Yes. When you connect this camera to Mac OS X running Yosemite via USB, iPhoto pops right up. You can see all photos and play all videos.
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I own an iMac from 2009 with 4g of RAM. I have had no problem downloading movies from the camera SD cards directly into iMovie; or pictures into iPhoto. I'm not sure if the camera came with software from canon, but I generally don't use that Canon software since it generally is clunky with the Mac. I've had the camera for years now and it works great.
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The video works fine with the Macs, but there is a known issue regarding the audio. The audio doesn't work with USB 3.0 ports. http://www.diamondmm.com/images/wpctvpromac/releasenotes.txt
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I downloaded their driver, etc from the canon site online and didn't install the software from a cd - maybe you could do that instead of trying to work with a cd - I have a mac mini and they work well together.
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I know that it does have Canon on it. It's got a lot of little detail. But I don't use Mac so I'm not sure
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What mac are you using? I have an older 2.0 Gighz G5 (not intel based) with 10.5.2, imovie and FCE HD. Any issues because its not an intel based mac?
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I am not sure if I can help. This device has a USB connector and a slot for an SD card. You put the SD card in the slot and then attach the USB connector to your laptop. I am not sure if Macs have a USB port. I don't think you can attach your Canon camera directly to this device. You probably have to take the SD card out and plug it into the Iogear device.
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I'm using a Windows P.C. Not sure about using a Mac. I would contact Canon for more details. The software (Pixela) that came with my videocam does require only Windows OS to operate.
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I am interested in either the Canon 100 HS or 300 HS for an international trip. Size of course is an issue and I know both are compact. I have not been able to find info as to whether either of the cameras are compatible with Mac operating systems. Does anyone know?