Please help! Problem with Canon HG10 and iMovie 08!

[hillexallen]

I just got a Canon HG10, and I am very impressed with it, however, I am having problems importing my footage to iMovie 08.

When I plug the camcorder in, iMovie 08 automatically detects the camera, and shows me all of the clips stored on it. I check the ones I want to import, and it imports them. After the import, it tells me that there was a problem importing a few of the clips (usually about 50% of them.) I click "Done" in the import window, and click the iMovie Event which the footage should be in, but the footage is not there. It says that it is empty.

How do I deal with this? Please help!

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[hillexallen]

Please help me!

 

[upsguy27]

Please help me!

Try importing the videos through iPhoto instead of iMovie.

 

[hillexallen]

How would I do that? My camera does not show up in iPhoto.

 

[upsguy27]

How would I do that? My camera does not show up in iPhoto.

Huh, well then I don't know. Do you have all of the latest updates? If you do, try restarting the computer.

 

[hillexallen]

Damn. Now iMovie won't recognize the camera either. This is bad. Please help me!

 

[upsguy27]

Damn. Now iMovie won't recognize the camera either. This is bad. Please help me!

Did you do what I said?

 

[keltorsori]

I would try calling Canon, it sounds like you may have an issue with the camera. Since the HG10 compresses in AVCHD, the speed of your HD is irrelevant as far as capturing goes (it's just copying files, not capturing video like w/ DV or HDV). So errors usually point to a problem w/ the camera. As well, are you using an SD card to capture, or just the camera's built-in storage?

 

[hillexallen]

Thanks for the help. I'll try messing around with the settings on the camera. Yeah, I restarted the computer, but I still had the same problem as I described in my first post. I am using the camera's hard disk drive. Can you even record onto an SD card? Does it have to be SDHC
Thanks, though!

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[hillexallen]

Ideas from anyone else?

 

[Ryan.Fork]

This is going to sound stupid, but I sometimes forget the simplest things... I'm assuming you have the camera plugged in and put in playback mode? Perhaps try putting it in playback mode before you connect the camera to your computer.... I'm just taking random stabs in the dark here....