How do I get video off of a digital camera onto my mac?
September 6, 2006 6:22 PM Subscribe
I'm attempting to take video off of my Canon SD200 digital camera (note: not camcorder) and put it onto my Mac PowerBook G4 so I can edit it in iMovie, but I can't figure out how to do it. If this were a PC, I'd have no issue, but my PC is nearly 7 years old, and probably can't handle video, let alone video editing. Do I need a program? Do I need to get my mac to register that the camera is connected? Help?
Plug it in via USB: It should recognize the camera as a USB drive and iPhoto or iMovie can get it. If not, use ImageBrowser (canon software).
If you can't get that to work (my usb on my canon is broken, so I have to do this), take the SD/MMC/ card, plug it into a card reader, open the drive, copy the movie files to the mac and load driectly into iMovie.
Simple
posted by lalochezia at 6:38 PM on September 6, 2006
If you can't get that to work (my usb on my canon is broken, so I have to do this), take the SD/MMC/ card, plug it into a card reader, open the drive, copy the movie files to the mac and load driectly into iMovie.
Simple
posted by lalochezia at 6:38 PM on September 6, 2006
Response by poster: Holy Mary Mother of God, it worked. Thank YOU and YOU. And you.
posted by commasplice at 6:49 PM on September 6, 2006
posted by commasplice at 6:49 PM on September 6, 2006
does iMovie recognize the files? because they are usually the same format as a miniDV camera, but in an .avi wrapper.
i need to do something similar soon, but havent go around to it.
posted by joeblough at 8:21 PM on September 6, 2006
i need to do something similar soon, but havent go around to it.
posted by joeblough at 8:21 PM on September 6, 2006
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