S400 - can't down load movie to mac

[casa495]

I've used my camera taking hundreds of picts and downloading them to my iMac g4. (OS 10.3) I've taken some movie clips & later erased them from the CF card but today was the first time that I've tried to download them to my mac. I tried them in iphoto and then put the Canon software on the computer and couldn't download the movie clip to the computer that way. Any suggestions? Joe

[A_Candid_Goodbye]

i dont know about your problem, but i am curious about the answer. i have the camera and i am seriously considering getting a mac, but if this and other problems persist i will have to change my mind. let me know what you find out. thanks in advance.

[Calvinh]

Pardon my ignorance (I don't have a Mac) but how did you download them? Did you use a cable or a CF card reader? would it make a difference if you tried the other way?

Just a suggestion.

[casa495]

It does not say in the canon booklet how to download the movie for the mac or the PCs. Downloading the picts has been easy and fine. I'm wondering if you can't down load the movie at all and only view it when it's hooked up to the tv? Joe

[khs8]

Casa495: according to the software spec (zoombrowser) from Canon, it supports v10.1/10.2, but did not mention v10.3.

http://www.canon.co.jp/Imaging/PSS400/ELIX400_2001-e.html

You can try and using a cf card reader and dl them into whatever file manager you use in MAC.

[andrewk]

if i read it correctly, you're only using iPHOTO. you can't download a movie using iphoto. you must use iMOVIE, or just download it directly to your hard drive. also, beware!, iphoto will NOT automatically download your movie. you must download movies as i suggested. you will also see two files when you download and look at it in your hard drive. one looks like a thumbnail pic of the movie, and the other is some sort of file (mac geeks insert file description here). do not delete this file. i believe it is the data for the movie. i have an ibook, and this is how it works on my end. i hope this helps. personally, i always just do a direct file transfer using a cf reader, burn a cd, then do all my downloading/editing. i don't always trust that a photo/movie program will snag all my pics off the camera.

andrew

[Edward]

I am trying to retrieve some images from my S30 which I thought were photos and turned out to be movies. (My son had changed the setting,) iphoto does not registerthese images at all. When I tried using imovie the computer opened iphoto as soon as i hooked the camera up to the computer with the black cable that comes with the camera. In the imovie help it talkes about using a firewire connection to download movies, but I don't know if the black cord is the equivalent.
Any helpful comments would be appreciated.

[3film]

I have a Canon V3, and I don't have any problems with downloading movies, You need to use Image Capture that's in your Application folder, I personally prefer that to iPhoto for downloading anyway. The Image Browser software also works flowlessly for me. SO I don;t know what your problem is. Oh, and I can also use a CF card reader.