[X4U] JVC Everio and the Mac.

[Adrian Stubbs]

Kevin Willis wrote:
>
> On Dec 18, 2006, at 10:00 PM, Adrian Stubbs wrote:
>
>> I bought a JVC Everio Camera in a hurry; needed it for a particular 
>> event.  My old Canon zr10 broke again.
>>
>> The camera is fantastic for taking video and Its Mac compatible.  
>> Should put quotes round that.  The software they supply doesn't work 
>> and all I can do is drag their files on to my hard drive, rename them 
>> and play them with quicktime.  I can't then edit them in anything.   
>> What do I have to do to make this camera worthwhile... it seems to be 
>> designed for PC users wanting to dump the files directly on to a DVD.
>>
>> Is there a free or low price way that I can use this camera without a 
>> ton of pain or is there a similarly good camera that is firewire/mac 
>> compatible in the way I want... compatible with iMovie etc.
>>
>> -Adrian
>
> I have the Everio Hard Disk Camcorder. It's not exactly "Plug and 
> Play", but I got it to work. I connect the camcorder via USB and 
> launch the application that comes with it. In the app., I go to file-> 
> load file and navigate through the camera to the file.  Once it is 
> loaded, I save it as a DV stream.  That way I can drop it in to iMovie 
> and take it from there. If you have any problems, let me know. I ain't 
> no expert. but we might can help.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Kevin
>

I missed that I could save it from that App to DV.  I thought I tried. 
It seems to work now though.   I ended up buying the MPEG-2 Quicktime 
codec from Apple which enabled mpeg streamclip to save the files to DV.  
I should have waited for you to answer my question and saved 20 bucks :)

On my wifes kick-ass MacBook Pro, the JVC software would complain about 
missing libraries.

Thanks
-Adrian