Camcorders for Macs

[DustyP 0]

Just wondering what HD camera your using with your mac. Seems to be very limited on acceptable video files.

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[dragon2 0]

Same HD camera you use for a pc.

ciel bleu,
Saskia

[DustyP 0]

Which would be....???

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[DSE 3]

What she said...
HDV works great.
AVCHD works great.
If speed is your need, lose the Mac. If you just want to be able to import vid....Any cam that reads on a PC works fine on a Mac. If it's an MPEG-based format (most are these days) then you'll be converting to another format. That's the price of using Apple.

CX100-very common
GoProHD-going to be extremely common
HC5-quite common
HC3-quite common

these are all HD cameras. SD cameras (for the most part) are DV, and DV can be imported to Apple as a DV.mov file, which requires no conversion.

[DustyP 0]

this is all news to me.. i have tried a cx100 and it dosent work, tried another sony that didn't work, tried a hp something and that didn't work either. I know the system is lacking drivers to support the files. the sony imported as a CPI or CDI file. You must have got a "SUPER SPECIAL" mac.. wow, cool!

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[DSE 3]

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this is all news to me.. i have tried a cx100 and it dosent work, tried another sony that didn't work, tried a hp something and that didn't work either. I know the system is lacking drivers to support the files. the sony imported as a CPI or CDI file. You must have got a "SUPER SPECIAL" mac.. wow, cool!

There are hundreds/thousands of Mac users successfully using CX100 as a source.
Perhaps you're using an old version of iMovie, FCE, or FCP?

[VectorBoy 0]

Perhaps you're using an old version of iMovie, FCE, or FCP?

[pbwing 0]

Maybe start by giving the specs of your MAC as well as the software and version that you are trying to "import" the video into.

This is an excellent forum to get all your answers - just start by giving us a bit of info.

[DSE 3]

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Perhaps you're using an old version of iMovie, FCE, or FCP?

Or a pre intel chip MAC, the motorola G4-G5 perhaps.

[DustyP 0]

Macbook - Mac OS X 10.5.8
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

Yeah, I hope there is an easy solution to this. i have tried installing the disk that comes with the cx100 and that doesn't work either.

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[michalm21 0]

no issues with my macbook and cx100 using premiere pro or final cut
havent tried imovie

[imdskydiver 0]

You need to hook up you cx100 with a USB cable and then open the camera and press the "connect by USB button " on the camcorders preferences before Imovie will recognize the files .

[DSE 3]

Using iMovie 08?

[DustyP 0]

yes, using iMovies 08

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[pilotsR4pimps 0]

cx-100