[MacDV] Re: downloading video footage

[Angela Hunt]

Thanks-so I discovered late last night.  Strangely enough the camera 
does not come with a fire wire cable and nowhere in the 3 books of 
instructions does it mention any way to download other than by USB.  A 
trap for beginners!
sincerely,
Angela.

On Feb 17, 2005, at 9:45 PM, sb wrote:

> 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.
>>
>
>
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