HDD cameras and editing

I know there is a lot of information here on HDD cameras like the Sony DCR SR82. I am a teacher and work with students in both iMovie 8 and Final Cut 5 and want to know if these cameras will plug in and import. I don't want to have to deal with converting file formats etc. I am new to these cameras and want to know if I should wait. I work with Power PC and Intel machines in OSX 10.4 and 10.5. Suggestions? Stick with Mini DV?

According to this link:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306171
your camera is supported on iMovie 7.x.x from iLife '08.
Good Luck.

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im a new mac user and have a sony dcr-sr62 hdd camera
i recently got fce4 not knowing that hdd cameras arent exactly compadible with the application.
and ive been stumped ever since. i have an external hard drive for my videos and id just like to find a way to get them into fce.
can anyone help?

Probably Streamclip as Tom suggested. The files are Mpeg-2.
Found a spec sheet:
http://www.pricerunner.com/pi/8-877992/Camcorders/Sony-DCR-SR62-30GB-Product-Inf o
Al

Help! JVC HDD Camera and Final Cut Express

Hello fellow Macsters!
I am using a JVC HDD camera but I realized it doesn't have FIREWIRE only USB 2.0. I am trying to unload my video into my Final Cut Express program but it won't work. Final Cut Express doesn't recognize it and the computer recognizes it as a 'drive'. What can I do to get my video into Final Cut Express and have Final Cut Express recognize this without a traditional firewire cable? Please help it will be greatly appreciated. You can also email me at [email protected]
Take Care
Andrew

You could pipe the signal from the JVC to a D/A converter box and then into the Mac, this will work.
OR
The HDD gives Mpeg2 files that FCE can't directly use. Third party software can de-mux these files before yhey go to FCE. Search this forum for de-mux.
Al

Sony's New HDD Cameras and FCE (or iMovie)

Help! I just bought a new Sony camera that does not use tapes. It is the DCR-SR40. They files are saved as Quicktime, but I cannot use them in FCE. Sony support says that they are not compatible with Mac. I can buy an editing program from Pixela, for $100, but then I can't use FCE. Any help in getting the files to work? Any third party software to convert the files? Sony support said I could use an analog capture card, but again, another expense, and I lose the digital. Grr!

Hey, thanks a bunch! I got Streamclip to work finally. I did have to d/l the quicktime add. I tried it without, to no avail. This twenty dollar fix is a lot better than the hundred dollar one.
I tried to email you, but the forum wouldn't give me your address. Is there any difference to the export choices? Export to DV is the best choice? It worked with one dvd I just made. Since you have this camera, am I supposed to format the HDD drive before I use it? I did not, as I was in a hurry to film. I just grabbed it out of the box and shot. I seem to remember that I had to do that as well when I bought a still Sony camera a few years ago. Same problem, had to format to get the disk to read.
Again, thanks a great deal for your help. I appreciate all here, both of you guys who helped me answer this problem.
Best,
LT

Older Cameras and Final Cut Pro 7

Hello all!
I dug out my old SONY DCR-TRV520 this weekend so my son could start playing around with a camera of his own. The camera is a Digital8 camera and has the 4 pin iLink(FW400) interface.
I have used it many, many times in my college days with older versions of Final Cut, up to 4. However when I plugged it in today and turned on Final Cut..it wouldn't launch. As soon as I unplugged the camera, Final Cut sprang to life. However, when I turned on Log & Capture it was not detected.
The only other FW drive I have is a 2TB FW800 drive for my video scratch & render and even with that unplugged I couldn't get the camera to be recognized.
Is there something that has changed that will not allow these older cameras to work anymore or is it just specific to this model? It was on the list of compatible cameras for Final Cut 4 but 3 versions is a lot of code changes.
Any ideas?

Thanks for the replies.
The camera is plugged in direct and it is in VTR Mode. I am going to try my archived version of iMovie 2.0.1 and see if that works on my 'ol 10.3 rig. If that doesn't work then I am going to see what I can do on the Windows side of things.
Oh, I an I tried the capture preset of Non-Controlable device and that still didn't work. The camera only has a 1/8" A/V out port and FW 400 4-pin interface so no USB support. The camera came out when USB 2.0 was still a gleam in a certification board's eye.
SONY's PMB software doesn't support tape based media and VEGAS 9 will not recognize the camera on a FW400 port. The only other option is to use my HDPVR and the S-Video out and encode it manually which will be just fine.
I do actually have a SONY AVCHD HDD cam and I love it. My kid is only 6 so it is still on the list of daddy's toys that he is not allowed to play with. I plan to teach him on film and tape before he graduates to HD what not but he is a bit away from that.
Just like I won't let him play Super Mario Galaxy until he beats the original Super Mario Bros.
But I will probably keep dinking with it until I get it to work and if I find a solution I post it.

Everio HDD Camera

Okay, so I'm having a major strugglefest getting my videos off of the GZ-HD300BU JVC Everio HDD camera, and every other support thing I have found has been for a different model, and therefore useless.
Does anyone know how to ACTUALLY import the files onto iTunes?
When I choose the "Export to Library" option, which should put all the movie files onto iTunes, but does nothing except for show the external drive on my computer, where I can access the files, but they're in .MTS format, which is untouchable unless you have $35 for the iSkysoft converter, which I don't want to pay for after getting the newest version of Final Cut Express, which should be able to handle AVCHD...
*grumble grumble*
Also there's all this nonsense about having the newest QuickTime. What's that about?

You really should take this question to the iTunes forum. If you want to ingest it using FCE then you're in the right place.

I have a lumix GH3 camera and I am trying to edit but I get poor playback when effects added?

I am using a Lumix GH3 camera and recording in .mov at 50fps progressive and 50mbps. My computer is a macbook pro two years old with 2.2ghz intel core i7 and 8gb of ram (1333 MHz DDR3).
The footage plays fine in the editing suite until I add an effect then the playback is extremely slow and jerky even after render. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? I am new to PPCC and I've just moved from FCP 7 as it didn't recognise the footage at all.
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There is a list of approved graphics cards for Premiere Pro. http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/tech-specs.html
Your card is on the list as an OpenCL compatible card. You need to make sure that your card is recognized by Premiere Pro and that you have your settings right in order to take advantage of it.
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I am trying to edit footage in PE12 from 2 different cameras and the output looks terrible

I am trying to edit footage in PE12 from 2 different cameras. One is a canon HD video camera taking AVCHD at 1440x1080 at 29fps. I am also using a canon 70D DSLR taking a MOV at 1920x 1080 at 29FPS
I want to make a 2 camera angle video. When i import both videos into PE12 and edit them together (i am dropping in footage and editing them back to back on video/audio 1) and start rendering, the output video is horrible. there are no straight lines and its blurry. the source video looks great...I am wondering if the difference in size of the 2 videos are messing up the project. is there anything i could do to make the final video look better?
I am very new at using this program and any information would be helpful...
thanks in advance,
jason

jason
Both 1440 x 1080 HD anamorphic 16:9 (pixel aspect ratio = 1.33) and 1920 x 1080 16:9 (pixel aspect ratio = 1.0) have the same
display, that is, 1920 x 1080. Whether you use a project preset for either, the space established by the project preset in the Edit area
monitor is 1920 x 1080 for editing. So, we achieve the goal of a 1920 x 1080 Edit area monitor space in selecting the project preset cited
above, that is
NTSC
DSLR
1080p
DSLR 1080p30
On the export side of things, it has long been suggested that 1440 x 1080 HD anamorphic content be exported with preset for 1920 x 1080 16:9
instead of 1440 x 1080 HD anamorphic 16:9 since both give the same display (1920 x 1080) and the choice 1920 x 1080 16:9 avoids the use of
a format that depends on a 16:9 flag to stretch the 1440 x 1080 for display after encoding. The latter has implications regarding issue of the player and recognition
of the 16:9 flag.
So, we should be OK on the import and export choices.
What about what happens between import and export. You wrote
I tried this solution and it seemed like it helped at first but when the final project was done, it looked bad again.
How did the final product look bad....was it the 1440 x 1080 HD anamorphic 16:8, the 1920 x 1080 16:9, or both that presented poorly in the export
which I am assuming was Publish+Share/Computer/AVCHD with Presets = MP4 H.264 1920 x 1080p30?
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ATR

I edited photos in photo shop that I took off of my camera and then whenI was done I saved them in a folder in my documents as a JPEG. Now when I try to open them there is an encrytion error me assage.

I edited photos in photo shop thay I took off my camera and when I was done I saved them in a folder in my documents as a jpeg. now when I try to open them there is an encryption error message

The folks here would need far more information from you before they provide help.
You know the drill: Exact OS...PS version...etc. The more you provide, the better.
What is the exact message that is displayed?
What have you tried so far?
Do the files display on your browser? In Bridge?
What are you doing when it happens?
Are the files still on your cameras card? If so and,you copy one to your desktop and save it without changes, does it reload properly?
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When I highlight photo's in bridge and then click open in camera raw this message comes up... Camera Raw Editing Is not enabled...Camera raw editing requires that a qualifying product has been launched at least once to enable this feature. I have used cam

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Have you opened Photoshop or any other Adobe app that Bridge works with? You need to do this if you've upgraded PS or just signed up for CC.

I opened and edited a pic from my Olympus camera onto my mac (not in iPhoto). I zoomed in

I opened and edited a pic from my Olympus camera onto my mac (not in iPhoto). I zoomed in and rotated the pictures and when I tried to click out of them, I got a message that the file was locked because I hadn't used it recently and "If you want to make changes to this document, click Unlock. To keep the file unchanged and work with a copy, click Duplicate." I clicked "unlock" and then another message came up with the options of OK, Cancel, or Revert. If I hit OK, I couldn't go back to my original picture. I clicked OK.
Then later I tried to open the picture in iPhoto and it doesn't recognize it, even though it is still a JPEG file. It still shows on my camera, but shows as a bland square in iPhoto. Have I lost the ability to open it in iPhoto? Will I be able to go to a store and print it out from my camera?

No one can answer that since you only provide problems and questions
we need to know exactly what you have, what you did and what happened including exact error messages
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What version of iPhoto Had you imported the photo into iPhoto - iPhoto is not a photo viewer and can not open photos that have not been imported
as to how your camera and the store work - those are qestions for them -
LN

Images imported from a digital camera were viewable and editable at first but later disappeared! They cannot be re-imported from either the camera or the iCloud as iPhoto indicates that they already exist, but cannot locate them. Please help!

On holiday I have been uploading my photos to iphoto on my macbook pro every few days, the latest batch appeared and I was able to edit them, flag, merge events etc. However, later that day when I went back to the images they could not be found in my library. They had been removed from 'latest import', however were viewable on the icloud photo stream. I have attempted to re-import the images from both the digital camera and my photostream but iphoto indicates that the images had already been imported and would not import them again. I was able to locate the master images using finder, but Iphoto tells me that these files are unreadable (they are .jpg) when I try to re-add them this way. I have also tried to 'unhide' all images in case I had accidentally hidden them but this didn't work either.
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a best practice to is to never have any computer program (including iPhoto) delete the photos from the card but to import the photos and keep them and then after at least one successful backup cycle has completed and then reformat the card -- I use three very large (32 GB) cards in rotation so I do not reformat for typically a year or more giving me one more long term backup of my photos
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LN

HT3775 I have videos on my camera and want them on my mac & learn to edit, help

I took videos off my camera and put on dvd discs and they won't go on my mac.
I need help. I have videos on my video camera and want them on my mac and then I want to edit
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Hi,
We would need to know how you go the Video from the camera to the DVD disks and in what Format the DVDs were recorded in.
If it made DVDs in the same format as commercial DVD films then the DVD player should open them
Quicktime will recognise many formats but not all .AVI and DIVX in particular.
Add-ons for Quicktime for some formats can be obtained.
Which app were you thinking of Editing in ?
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I have .VRO video files on computer originally recorded on DVD RAM cam. HOw do I import and edit these as they don't appear supported.

I have .VRO video files on computer originally recorded on DVD RAM cam. HOw do I import and edit these as they don't appear supported.

mohamedr
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There are numerous converters online to convert the .VRO files into .VOB or MP4 or other which should be supported by Premiere Elements.
Maybe explore the free MPEG Streamclip for the conversion
Squared 5 - MPEG Streamclip video converter for Mac and Windows
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