Transferring video from Canon FS200 to a MAC I see conflicting comments on whether it is easy or hard to transfer data from camera into IPhoto or IMovie. Can anyone help me with this? I haven't opened my camera yet, as I don't want to have issues with transferring to my MacBook. Transferring video from Canon FS200 to a MAC I see conflicting comments on whether it is easy or hard to transfer data from camera into IPhoto or IMovie. Can anyone help me with this? I... » Read More Transferring video from Canon FS200 to a MAC I see conflicting comments on whether it is easy or hard to transfer data from camera into IPhoto or IMovie. Can anyone help me with this? I haven't opened my camera yet, as I don't want to have issues with transferring to my MacBook. « Show Less
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Thanks for the great information. How do you know which files to convert off your camera (when using without iMovie). The files I see are .MOD, .MOI, and .PGI. Thanks for the help!
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What type of mac do you have? All the other posts I have read say that you need all updated software and then it does work.
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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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I have a question, I just picked out this camcorder as a Christmas present. My family just purchased it for me. I will be using it for my Senior Project Documentary (Needed to graduate college). I have a new Macbook Pro and will be editing on Final Cut Express 09. Does anyone know how the video quality will be with that? Also, will I have any compatibility issues? Lastly, how is the audio on this? I was going to invest into the external microphone. Has anyone had any issues with audio thus far? Thanks.
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No one has responded. My tech expert son believes that we will be able to do it. We will try this afternoon. I will hopefully be able to update you on our progress. Only other issue is that I do not have sufficient memory on my MacBook Pro right now...so we will try to transfer "through" the Mac to an external hard drive.
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I have the same question, Donna. I have a iBook G4 running OS X. Have you heard anything? Does it work with iMovie?
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I have imovie 09. It tells me none of the files on the card from my FS200 can be read. So what's the secret? Thanks.
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I put a memory card in my camera and I just remove it and load it in my computer and down load the pics from the card ...there is a USB port you can also download that way...I have a Mac and no problems
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Macintosh you need a firewire cable and you may have to use iMovie. Premiere Pro is iffy in capture. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
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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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Thanks B. Wickens!I've continued my research and it turns out the problem is not the brand of the camera but the AVCHD codec itself. Most video editing applications don't support it yet. So indeed you can copy the files to your hard drive in a Mac but you need a program that can read them.Turns out the latest Final Cut Pro does indeed support AVCHD and also the iMovie '08 (not '06).My favorite recoding application is VisualHub but I haven't been able to determine yet if it will read AVCHD and convert it to something else.
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Sorry not certain I am Not a mac user. Email in a few days at fttvienna@aol.com and I can help you out. At this time I am out of town and can't supply much detail. As you may or may not be aware Video software capture and processing is a complicated process. MANY MANY products are out there. I purchased something on line that converts formats and MAC type was one of the. and there are many types of programs out there Camera came with software that stores video in three formats I had no issues with Storing and editing. You also have to piece all the points you create when you use Pause feature because camera creates a separate video clip each time you pause. Software supplied with camera does handle that
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when you attach the VIXIA to the Mac via USB (remember to plug in the recorder to a power source), iMovie and or iPhoto will recognize it and begin the downloading process. Alternatively go iMovie, connect the recorder to the computer and select "Import" on the iMovie panel. That should also do the trick. In short, I have never had an issue downloading either video or photos to my Mac, which means that the VIXIA HF R10 is fully compatible with the Apple computer. Good luck.
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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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You take your SD card out of your camera, stick it in your Mac and iPhoto opens up, just like with your iPhone. It's pretty easy. The videos cannot be deleted after transfer from iPhoto, though, and you must do that either on the camera or navigating on finder to the camera directory and deleting the video files there.
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Subject: Re: Y. Callewaert commented on your answer to the question "Being a Mac user, will this camera work with my Mac and iMovie program?"You're welcome. I think the camera is great. Really nice hs pics. I did buy the cannon mike that mounts on top on the shoe and if u have the extra $150 I think it is well worth it audio wiseThe mic is made for the camera. We use it to record our church services so I needed better sound than the built in micDave
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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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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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The Pixela software referenced by C. Suntra did the trick for me, although it does require that extra step of interpreting the footage into iMovie-friendly format. I've gone back and forth about keeping or returning the camera since it's not Mac-friendly, but have decided to keep it. I've learned that there really aren't any current hard drive camcorders on the market that are Mac-friendly. The Amazon price was the best I found after shopping around.
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to Science Rules:I also have a MacBook Pro and use i Movie for movie making. My experience with import from a camcorder(I have a sony digital tape camcorder) is that it only sees the firewire connection to import movies. Please explain to me how you get your Mac to see an import from the USB cable connection.thank you,Randal
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The frame acts as a jump drive or portable hard drive when you plug it in via USB. So I would think that you wouldn't have a problem transferring the photos you have on iPhoto to the frame. I did it by dragging and dropping the pictures I had in my PC "my pictures" to the frame. Haven't used it on a Mac but I believe it supports Mac. Again it's basically a portable drive in terms of putting pictures on it. Hope this helps!
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The camcorder comes with a basic file management utility, the Everio MediaBrowser 4 that runs only in Windows, but you should still be able to get your files onto your Mac. I used the USB cable to import video and still images into iPhoto and iMovie on my MacBook Pro, and it worked just fine.
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K, I to have that ? There's alot out the about Mac/Intel supports only to find the answer defeating your purpose. I want to edit my recordings with Imovie8 and am concerned about buying this camera and ending up with incompatible issues like Codec,codec conversion,transfer, capture, reduction of quality. Not to much all the unqualified reviews out their. I'm off to Europe soon and need the right cam. will fs11 do/Imovie