Angela, You must use the Firewire/iLink/1394 cable, not the USB cable, and you must launch iMovie as the application to download to. If you still have problems, let us know. regards, sb On 2/17/05 6:25 PM, "Angela Hunt" <angelahunt at comcast.net> wrote: > We just bought the Canon Optura 400 and are having trouble downloading > video footage onto our powerbook G4 running OSX.3 It seems you can > only download from the 'card' not the 'tape'-is this true? The card > that comes with the camera gives you about 20 seconds of filming > time-even if we bought a card 100 times bigger it would still be fairly > useless. How does anybody else deal with this? Would love to hear from > someone. > Angela. >