Create Camera Archive via Card Reader - Possible?

If I connect my DSLR (5D II) to the Mac Pro via USB it is not recognised when I click the Import Icon as a source to create a Camera Archive.
If I stick the CF card in a Firewire reader it does not appear as an option except when using Import under File menu option, and that imports directly as an Event.

Jeaux wrote:
I can understand using FCPX to archive tape footage, but for card contents I don't see the point. Create an archive file on a drive and drag a copy of your card there...
Yes, you could do it manually (what I generally do for photos) but for consistency I'd like to make archives when I've taken video footage - I'm only a hobbyist but often carry both my Sony HC3 camcorder and 5D II DSLR - I'll have video from both and it would be quite clumsy to have an archive of the tape material but a 'manually created' folder of the DSLR stuff.
Not essential to have this, but would certainly be nice.

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I have a Panasonic DMC-FZ38 HD camera and have lots of hd movie clips stored on my old Windows Pc using Photofun software supplied by Panasonic, which I want to transfer to my new Imac computer. I am able to copy my most recent movies that are still on the memory card from my camera onto Imovie and view them with no problems at all. When it comes to copying my old existing hd movies stored on my Windows Pc (and which are no longer stored on a memory card), I discover that when I view them on the Imovie, the speed has doubled but the sound is normal. In order to transfer my old movies I have copied them back onto a memory card (SDHC - the same card as previously used) and then put the card back into my camera and then copied them onto my Imac via the camera USB. I have also used a card reader but get the same result. If I view the same movie through my camera, or look at it on my old pc, it plays at normal speed. Does anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening please?

have you read and watch the Tutorials..? :
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovie
iM is a bit.. iffy, when it comes to the definition, what a 'camera' is. historically, only tape based machines were a movie-camera. nowadays still-cams allow movin' images too..
but, as mentioned above: the intended workflow is: material from photo cameras (even when they move) => import via iPhoto; material from video cameras (even when they don't move.. ) => iMovie
when the import is done, you'll notice in all iLife apps the 'media browser' - in iM09, on the very right, the icon with a camera on.. click it, presto, all (incl. your 'videos') your iPhoto Library at hand for usage in iMovie.
watch this:
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/movies/imovie08.html#tutorial=otherimport
(about from midths of tutorial...)

Create camera archive produced blank archive

Hi,
I tried to create a camera archive from a Sony Digital 8 camcorder playing back a Video 8 tape. The video showed on the screen and it said it was capturing. After 30mins when the footage was finished, I clicked stop. It asked me if I want to keep what has been capture so far so I clicked to keep it.
The archive created could not be opened in FCPX and looking in the finder the archive is 0KB in size. Has anyone else experienced this?

The footage is analog, but the camera outputs a digital signal and I am connecting it with firewire to the mac (I'm lucky to have one of the few Digital 8 camcorders that do that - bought it on ebay just for that purpose!).
The video displays on the screen in FCPX, but when it got to the end, the archive was 0KB in size.
Capture works fine in iMovie.

Camera Connector and card reader

When I connect my compact flash card reader through the Camera Connector it immediately recognizes it and when I confirm I wish to load the pictures it will download many of the pictures ... then it just hangs.
It can't be a bad jpeg because each time I try it ... it hangs on a different picture.
I have tried several different compact flash cards and they all do the same.
The pictures which it loads are just fine.
I wouldn't think that it should be some kind of compatibility issue because it works straight away ...
If I quit out of the loading ... it will hang at that point.
When it hangs I must boot out of the condition.
What would cause this?
Anyone else experience this?

Uh hem, found the recent topic dedicated to this question. Unfortunately, not much is compatible!

HT4101 Camera connector kit not working with ipad3. Not at all able to see any photo . Have tried both the USB connector directly with camera and thru card reader. Tried by copying photos to DCIM folder also.

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Hey, thanks for your updates.
The photos are 8 character long and extension is .jpg
The file names are 8 characters long with 3 as alphapet followed by an "_" and then 4 numbers.
Initially the photos were in a folder inside DCIM folder. I manually copied them to DCIM folder, still no result.
Can you advice.

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Hello all,
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Thanks.
Brian

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Images imported via card reader from Eye-Fi chip are garbled

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Hi JayWilson,
Thanks for posting and welcome to the Lenovo Community,
I’d like to ask you to share with us the status of using the wireless connection is it stable with you and working fine?
And I’d like to advise you to try to contact the service provider for your Eye-Fi card as i need to share with you the
requirements for the Eye-fi card that you have:
Computer with Windows 7/XP (SP3)/Vista or Mac OSX 10.5+ (Intel only) and 100MB of free space.
And as I understand from your post your machine came with windows 8.
Hope the information helps. Let us know.
Regards
Soha
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HT4101 Ipad Camera Connection SD Card Reader-Not opening to Import

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Please give us the exact error message.
Please state your operating system.
Please state the exact version of Lightroom you are using.
Please give us any other relevant details.
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Hi bricknut dab,
Welcome to the Support Communities! Are you asking about the SD slot on your Mac, or is this an external card reader plugged into a USB port? If it is the one on your Mac, the article below may be helpful. Did you try more than one SD card? You can use Disc Utility to erase and reformat the card if needed.
About the SD and SDXC card slot
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3553
I put the card in the slot, but it did not mount. What should I do?
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Can I reformat an SD card with Disk Utility?
Yes. Using Disk Utility, you can partition and format an SD device as FAT32 (using the MS-DOS FAT setting) or Mac OS Extended. The Mac OS Extended format can only be used on Macintosh systems. Cards formatted to Mac OS Extended will not be recognized by non-Apple systems. Formatting cards larger than 32GB for use with digital cameras, GPS, and other devices may require formatting them with the exFAT file system. When in doubt, format the cards in the device you intend to use with the card.
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- Judy

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I would be very happy for Apple to make a Compact Flash card reader just like the SD connection. Its something I would purchase immediately. Sadly Apple is yet to realise that not everbody uses crappy little point and shoot or entry level DSLR cameras and those that have the high end gear are those who woulld actually use the iPad in the real world for a travelling "light-box".
BTW does Apple ever look at this forum? or is it just a place that they specifically ignore when it comes to faulty programming or products?

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The point of using a Different Account on your Mac is that it will tell us if the applications are sound or not. If the problem occurs in another User account we'll know the issue is systemic. If it doesn't then we know the apps are sound and the issue is something in your account.
Basic troubleshooting: try the same things using different cables. If the cable is faulty then that's how we'll know. That fact that other features work using this cable means nothing. A connector cable has several strands. One could be damaged.
Ditto for using different USB ports on the machine.
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TD

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