IMovie USB support

I can't get iMovie to recognize my Kodak M753 digital camera for importing movies. It doesn't have capacity for a firewire cable to connect it.
Is there any way to get my movies off the camera?

iPhoto doesn't import the movies, just the pictures from the camera. I have iPhoto 2.0.1 if that makes a difference. iMovie is v. 3.0.3 for me.
Can't remember that far back and don't use a digital to record clips in any event. If your OS does not "see" the camera as an external device and you do not plan to upgrade iLife, I would recommend picking up a cheap card reader. (I believe you can find them as low as $8 to $12 these days.) In any case, you simply plug the reader into your USB port, remove the memory card from your camera, and plug it into the reader. You should then be able to drag and drop your files/clips to your hard drive as if the reader was an external hard drive. (I even use it to perform firmware updates to my TV in this manner.)

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I want to buy a camcorder,Panasonic PV-GS320 3.1MP 3CCD MiniDV. Because of its vdo quality. And I wonder if iMovie'08 supports this model or not? Is there any body know about this?

The USB cable will work for transferring still photos to the Mac, but not for movies. A USB-2 port on the Mac is preferred.
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Since you have remove the battery from the camera to get at the connectors, you have to supply power to the camcorder via the DC cable that came with it. One end of this cable goes to the camcorder connector marked 7.9V DC, the other end is plugged into the side of the battery charger, which must be connected to 110-120 VAC with the power cord.
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10.6.8 Update - No USB Support - Help!

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At 9:00 was offered the auto update to 10.6.8. Closed open apps and let the MBP do its thing.
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I have a early 2008 macbookpro 2.8 duel with silver keys.
I purchaed the 10.6 disk from the apple store. I've had the machine for years and purchased it refurbished from apple.
I did the erase and install and migrated everything over from external drive, then did update to 10.6.8 and the usb ports still would stop working after a few hours.. Then I read on another apple community forus to reset pram, and pull out the power cable, take out the battery and hold power key for 5 seconds, then restart. that seemed to fix usb issue so far..
But overall my computer seems to be running slower then when using just 10.5.8 and it did not wake from sleep once and I had to force power off and restart.. But maybe its just getting used to 10.6.8. we will see..
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Solaris 10 Oracle VDI VirtualBox 3.2 USB support

Dear folks,
This my first time to the forum, since we are in the progress of deploying 240+ thin clients using Oracle VDI. I was piloting the project in a desktop machines with Sunray 3i. I installed Solaris 10 9/10 and Oracle VDI 3.2.1. However, while I was creating WinXP VM in Virtualbox 3.2 -the one which came with Oracle VDI 3.2- I got that error about being unable to connect to USB proxy server. Eventually this error leads to that all my VMs doesn't support USB redirection. So USB flash disk drive doesn't work in my Sunray 3i. Reading VirtualBox documentation Installing on Solaris hosts , I came across this info "*This does not apply to Solaris 10 hosts due to lack of USB support.*" Is this real?
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Other than the documentation stating it doesn't work, in practice have you tested it to not work also?
We have two Solaris 10u5 machines running Vbox 3.2.12 and they pass through USB fine with our Sun Ray 3's (not 3i's but that shouldn't matter).
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Java usb support for windows

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<---THE CODE--->
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[SOLVED] Virtualbox and USB Support

I use Virtualbox quite regularly for work and school. I have Windows installed within Virtualbox, and I use it whenever school or work requires. However, USB support has never worked for me (even with the fstab addition) and I thought maybe I'll spend some time to figure this out.
Basically, I may want to do things like insert a flash drive and make it available to the VM, or even sometimes an MP3 player or even my PSP. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work. There USB filters, but often times the device I want is greyed out, and can't be selected. When I am able to select a device to create a filter, it doesn't do anything. I did check the Wiki already.
Maybe I'm missing something? Or is USB support in Virtualbox just that bad? I was hoping there would be some sort of way I can dedicate a USB port to Virtualbox, and make it exclusive. I think VMWare can do that but I'm not sure that Virtualbox can.
Last edited by jlacroix (2010-10-19 02:41:44)

I hope it's ok to post in this thread because if I started a new thread the title would be identical. I am also using virtualbox_bin from AUR and while USB passthrough works just fine to my Windows XP guest, it can't be working any faster than USB v1.1 speed. I have the appropriate entry in /etc/fstab and am a member of the virtualbox group. No permissions problems and from what I can tell there's no corruption of data to/from any of my USB flash drives. The only issue I've had other than the aforementioned lack of speed is with a 1TB Western Digital Passport. It seemed to have "lost" some directories. In other words they appeared completely empty on the XP side. After shutting down the guest I verified that all of the files were indeed still there and intact. I've basically chalked that one up to a deficiency in Windows XP. But this speed issue is seriously holding me back.

HP F4580 on Imac in windows 7 bootcamp, won't install "no usb support" works OK on Mac side

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Hi,
Although installing the printer on Windows by using Bootcamp may work, it is not guaranteed...
The windows OS actually being installed as a virtual envoirnment, which means your Windows OS is using your Mac OS USB drivers as the host, and not those intended for Windows.
Therefore it is not being recognized by the software.
You may find some more information at the document below:
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John Cogdell wrote:
… Stop teasing us Karsten! …
naw, just kiddin'!
"those who know, don't tell. those who tell, don't know."
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USB Support in Hyper-V. Very Confused.

I am running Windows 8.1. I start Hyper-V and need to install which Operating Systems to have USB support inside of the VM? Is this possible? I tried windows 7 and I do not see Enhanced Session Mode. I tried windows 8.1 and again I do not see Enhanced
Session Mode. Is it possible to have USB access in a Hyper-V VM?

Hi Sir,
Client hyper-v needs the host OS is x64 win 8/8.1 Pro/Ent :
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh857623.aspx
Enhanced session mode comes with win8.1/server2012R2 , also the guest OS should be 2012R2/win8.1 :
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn282274.aspx
Best Regards,
Elton Ji
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What happens to iPhoto and Aperture access if I do the latest update to iMovie which supports the upcoming Photos app?

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Hi:
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Is there any improvements for AVCHD file supports in iMovie 11?

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After installing, I tried to import some loose .mts files, but they are greyed out. Some brief exploring turned up nothing to help.
This is really too bad. It would be so nice to be able to save the individual .mts file on my hard drive, and access them when necessary. I'm fine with the intermediate encoding iMovie does before editing, but forcing me to use the silly file structure of my camera's hard drive, or an iMovie archive (basically the same thing) is frustrating.
Allowing the import of naked .mts files would be a huge step forward.
Assuming I'm not wrong about this, what is the best way to work around this? What is the best way to bring loose .mts files into iMovie? (And I hope I'm not hijacking the thread by asking this.)

Need Chipset Driver for USB support

Hi.
This Windows XP-SP3 PC has 4xUSB2 or 2xUSB3 on-board ports, and all have failed. All USB devices are yellow-flagged in device manager.
I have run SFC \SCANNOW and it runs to completion, and I have tried right-clicking on a yellow-flagged USB entry in Device Manager and selecting Update Driver, but that only results in the following dialog:
Cannot Install This Hardware
There was a problem installing this hardware:
Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controller
An error occurred during the installation of the device:
The driver installation file for this device is missing a necessary entry. This may be because the INF file was written for Windows 95 or later. Contact your hardware vendor stop
It has been suggested to me that I should try to obtain the Chipset Driver for USB support. Running Speccy reveals the following about the mainboard:
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   Model   MS-7267 (CPU 1)
   Version   3.0
   Chipset Vendor   Intel
   Chipset Model   i945P/PL/G/GZ
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   Southbridge Vendor   Intel
   Southbridge Model   82801GB (ICH7/R)
   Southbridge Revision   A1
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- Rosie

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Not to the naked eye.
AVCHD is a highly compressed Group of Pictures format. iMovie does all its rendering at the end when you share the project, so to edit AVCHD natively requires that it would do all rendering plus translate the compressed frames of AVCHD on the fly. This would take a very powerful Mac, so Apple does not offer it.
Final Cut Pro does rendering in the background and does not wait until the project is complete before rendering, so it can edit natively. However, ProRes422 is a very advanced codec, and most people claim that you lose nothing in using ProRes. It also uses 4:2:2 chroma sampling (rather than iMovie Apple Intermediate Codec which uses 4:2:0) which should mean higher color fidelity.
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USB Support In Hyper-V

I am running Windows 8.1. I start Hyper-V and need to install which Operating Systems to have USB support inside of the VM? Is this possible? I tried windows 7 and I do not see Enhanced Session Mode. I tried windows 8.1 and again I do not see Enhanced
Session Mode. Is it possible to have USB access in a Hyper-V VM?

Hi flagrantHippo,
You need to right click the Hyper-V host, then select
Hyper-V settings, Enhanced Session Mode is available there.
Follow this blog to configure the settings:
Overview: Client Hyper-V Enhanced Session Mode in Windows 8.1
For more information, please check:
Virtual Machine Connection - Enhanced Session Mode Overview
For the others who might reading this thread, the below are some steps for reference:
1. Press the + R keys to open the Run dialog, type
virtmgmt.msc, and click/tap on OK.
2. In the left pane, right click or press and hold on your Hyper-V Server, and click/tap on
Hyper-V settings. (you could also click/tap on Hyper-V settings
under Actions in the far right pane.)
3. Click/tap on Enhanced Session Mode policy in the left pane under
Server, and then make sure Allow Enhanced Session Mode is
Selected;
4. Click/tap on Enhanced Session Mode in the left pane under
user, and then make sure Use Enhanced Session Mode is
Ticked;
5. Right click/hold on one of your Virtual machines under the Virtual Machine pane, and then click/tap on
Connect;
6. This will now bring up your virtual machines connection window, to set the local resources we want available to the virtual machine click/tap
Show Options;
7. Click/tap on the tab Local Resources, then under the section group box
Local devices and resources we will choose what can be seen inside the virtual machine, and click/tap on
More. Locate the local device and resource you want, click/tap the relevant box, and click/tap on
OK.
Once done, click Connect.
Best regards
Michael Shao
TechNet Community Support

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