Importig Clips from Hard Drive Cameras

iMovie HD imports *.mod clips (provided there are not too many) very rapidly from Hard Drive camcorders. It creates a series of event folders, one for each day! These event files are *.dv and can be imported by iMovie HD 6 and FC Express. Why can't Apple update FC Express and iMovie 6 so we could bring our clips right into those programs without going through iMovie 8 or another third party conversion to dv if we want to do real video editing?

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Instead of renaming them manually you can use a program such as namemangler: http://www.manytricks.com/namemangler/ to change the names at a batch

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    See attached discussion:
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    Instead of renaming them manually you can use a program such as namemangler: http://www.manytricks.com/namemangler/ to change the names at a batch

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