Is this camera compatible with Imovie. Can video be easily transfered from Internal to MacPro running Imovie
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Yes it is, with iMovie 11. The camera allows you to record in two modes, iFrame and 1080/60 AVCHD. iMovie will only accept recordings in iFrame. You don't need a firewire cable but just the USB cable that comes with the video camera. To get around recording in AVCHD, I have Adobe Premier Elements for Mac, which I prefer over iMovie. Transfers 1080/60 AVCHD recordings without any problems.
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In the operating instructions there is a section for using the camera with MAC. It does refer to the fact that the software program for the camera, HD Writer LE 1.1 is not available for MAC but iMovie'11 is supported. For details about iMovie'11 it asks that you contact Apple Inc. Hope this helps.
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Hi AC, Yes, I have a MacBook Pro and it works great. I actually prefer the included "FlipShare" video editing software vs. iMovie for editing my Flip videos. It's just a lot easier and faster. But I've also used iMovie and it works great, too. Oddly, though, when you plug in your Flip, iPhone (not iMovie) opens. You can go ahead and import all the clips to iPhoto, and then they'll show up in iMovie, or you can close iPhoto, open iMovie and manually import the clips. Hope that helps! -Dieds
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Fully compatible! Link to Fuji site here: http://www.fujifilm.com/products/digital_cameras/support/compati_winmac.html My wife and daughter both use the (earlier model) Z100fd (8 megapixel vs the 20's 10MP), and it works fine with the Mac. Opens right up in iPhoto with no problem, tho we usually connect the XD card with an adaptor to the Mac's USB port, which seems to work faster than using the USB cable. Ours are used with an older eMac, which is only USB1, so I'm sure USB2 (which this Fuji uses) on a more current Mac will transfer files a LOT faster! Ours takes great videos, and has pretty much eliminated the use of our DV camcorder for most events. One thing I'd recommend is to NOT import video clips into iPhoto, as the file sizes tend to reduce import speeds to a crawl, as well as slow iPhoto down quite a bit (altho this may not be an issue on a modern Intel-based Mac). Hope this info helps you... we Mac users need to support each other! ;-) BTW- I've added the lime-green z20fd on my OWN wish list here on Amazon!
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Yes - you take out the SD card - and put into your MAC - goes right into iMovie - or iPhoto - whatever you want - but I don't think the cord works with MAC - b/c Mac has moved from Firewire to SD card...so I guess depends on your MAC -
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It is, to a point. I plugged it in to several of our Macs (an iMac G3, a G4, and an Intel Macbook), and in each case the camera's internal memory showed up on my desktop, just as a USB flash drive would. The pictures can be transferred to the the computer by drag and drop, which is good enough for us. In no case, however, was I able to get iPhoto or Image capture to recognize the camera directly, and of coarse the included Windows-based software doesn't work.
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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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Yes - I use iMovie with this camera. I take out the SD card and put into my MacBook Pro - and then input into iMovie :) Hope this helps - I really love this camera.
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Yes you can put it on the Mac. The file format for video are AVI and photos are JPEG. You might need to use another program free at the MacApp store to convert files for iMovie, but you definatly can put files on Mac to share.
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It's no problem. The included software doesn't launch automatically with Mac, you have to install it.But on my MacBook, I don't bother with the included software. Just drag the files to your Mac and you can play them in QuickTime, or import them into iMovie to string together and make movies.
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That's the beauty of Macintosh. Connect the camera via USB or insert the memory card into a reader and connect to your Mac. Import the file(s) into iMovie or other video editing software. Easy as pie!
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Yes. I have a macbook pro and it has a slot for the SD card. You can import the movies directly into iMovie or iPhoto. If you don't have a card reader in your Mac, you would just need a sync cable or an external card reader.
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After you do this, you may have some trouble viewing and editing the video on your mac, but there are several solutions. The best one I've found - mentioned in a review here - is visualhub. You can use the trial version, the full version, or isquint, and change the avi files to mp4s or dv files. It's very easy and works wonderfully! I've found this little camera to be a pleasure to use. Have not yet tried editing files in iMovie, but they look very good on the computer. )
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Manual says IMovie '09 is supported. The software that comes with the camcorder is Windows only. I don't know anything about MACs so I don't know if this really answers your question or not.
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from one of the reviews I found this: MAC USERSThe CX220 claims that it does not work with MAC OS, but it does work with iMovie. What this basically means is that you cannot simply plug the CX220 into your MAC and copy files.You must first download iMovie, and then all recordings can be stored to your MAC very easily. iMovie is a great program and very easy to use. There is a great post on YouTube that is titled: HDR-CX160 directly to iMovie. This is the same method for storing videos from your HDR-CX220 to your MAC. It works very well.
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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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it seems to be one of the camcorders on the list in the Imovie site of supported recorders. it is over my head as well but would love to know as well as it seems too good to be true .if some one can confirm it works with Ilife 08, I would love to know as well . I would buy it if it is .