[awditch]

Your lement that its just a big unsolved
problem is a poor answer to all of us who bought a hard drive camera only to find that it doesn't work with Imovie and
good luck finding what does.

Get on the problem and provide a
proper interface for these camcorder
manufactures or get out of the movie
business.

Apple is guilty of unfair advertising

[trip1ex]

I recently picked up a Flip Ultra. No iMovie support outta the box. You have to manually grab the files off the camera (DCIM folder) and convert to a format iMovie 08 likes. Pretty decent SD quality, but convenience is the reason I'm liking this thing. EAsy to whip out and grab some footage of the kids when something interesting is unfolding. Stuff I wouldn't have time to get with my camcorder parked out of the way. Plus it's less intimidating (for user and subjects) and I can leave it laying around and not worry about the kids ruining it. IT's inexpensive and fairly durable.

I actually returned my first one because I was a bit down that it didn't have nice plug and play iMovie 08 support, and so I tried a regular camcorder, but decided to go back because of the convenience and close enough picture quality.

HD is outta my price range. PLus I would miss the convenience of the Flip still, the HD takes up too much HD space, problems with iMovie quality there and no burnable BR player in my house or anything. Uploading HD seems to not be practical at this time either.

The Flip is like the cellphone. IN the old days of the phone sound quality and reliability were thought to be everything. Then the cellphone came along and that theory was shot out of the water. Convenience trumps quality or at least once the quality is "good enough."

[jachavez]

Isean,

I've been looking at camcorders and was looking at the JVC gz mg330, i was hoping this was the model you maybe referring to about that works with Mac, I've read some views concerning some compatibilities issue with some of there other models.

Thanks

Jesse

[ladyharley01]

This is the model I own and cannot get my Mac to open video. See my recent post about my wonderful experience with this.
I love the camcorder but hate the fact that my computer won't open the files. What the heck is the point?

[ladyharley01]

Did you connect your JVC to your Mac with the USB cable or did you use the micro SD card?
When I use either, the Everio icon comes up on the desk top and I open the folders. Because I don't know how to convert the extensions of the files as someone suggested, I keep getting an error message that says the files are not movies and cannot be opened.
A guy at Best Buy today told me I could install Windows on my Mac and this would solve the HD camcorder dilemma.
My questions about this are these:
Would this solve my problem with downloading my videos and....
What exactly do I need to run Windows? A software employee at Best Buy said I need to purchase Windows XP and Windows Parallel. Is this true?

I'm so ticked off at myself for buying an expensive HD camcorder!!!!! Not only can't I download my videos to my Mac, I can't even watch them.
Any thoughts on this?????


Thank you