Importing Video without Fire Wire

How do I import video from my Sony HI8 camera which is not equipped with fire wire. Is it possible to do this using the USB port and if so How. Thanks. I am a Newbee

If your Olympus software is incompatible with Mac, have you tried using a memory card reader to upload those photos? That's the great thing about Macs - you can usually do without the camera drivers and software,
Long story short, I do hobby underwater photography/video and my equipment,while it works fine, is 1990 vintage, bulky, and a pain in the butt to travel with. I wanted to up grade to a camera that was small, would do stills and video and had an underwater housing available. I settled on the Olympus 710 with the 1 gig XD card. Problem was that the salesman told me that it would download into my HP and I could use Windows Movie Maker to edit movies. WRONG! WMM uses .avi format the camera saves in .mov. WMM can't use .mov so i bought a conversion program which converted it to .mov.avi.I now have 3 conversion programs, none of which work and to tell you the truth I wanted to strangle someone. A buddy of mine has a MAC and said it was the answer. I connected my camera to his Macbook and it immediately downloaded the photos and video without Olympus software and I could use the video in Imovie. I am happy. Now I just have to solve the "old stuff" problem. This forum has been very helpful.

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I have a Canon HV20 and a My Book 500 Gig Hard drive and I'm using a Ibook G4.
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hey there Michealbak, welcome to Discussions,
i've used a Belkin Firewire hub for 5 years w/ no issues because i needed more Firewire ports on my G4 iMac connecting FW audio, Sony cam & ext FW HDDs. then i used it briefly on my MacBook for the same purpose as you, needed to connect a FW HDD & my video cam. as Tom states Canon cams can have issues w/ multiple devices on the same FW buss. the hub may or may not help, as others have reported issues w/ the MyBook line of HDDs.
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screen.
budged is low, so I'm looking for any suggestion.
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any other ?
thank you,
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Marrack,
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Chap
http://www.blackmagic-design.com/

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How to import Video without a firewire!

I have a Canon PowerShot SD750 brand new. I installed the software and was able to upload photos and film but I could not import it from a file into imovie HD.
I was told not to install the regular software when I was at the Apple store so I took it off and usng a usb could not even get my macbook pro to recognize the camera.
According to the help section on i movie I need to use a firewire cable but my camera did not come with one. Any ideas?

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I have a 13 inch mac book with only USB, but a video camera that only has a fire wire output jack.
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Is there an accessory I can buy that will do this? Link to the product?
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There is no option/accessory to do this. You'll need to get a different camera, or use a computer with firewire.

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how do I find out what kind of fire wire port I have on my desktop? I want to transfer video from my camcorder.

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Are you talking about your computer which has no firewire port ? If YES you can have one of two options:
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You can buy from this:
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(b) You can also use USB-Firewaire adapter like this:
http://compare.ebay.com.au/like/120580625092?ltyp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes
Regards.
BH
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Your question doesn't make much sense.
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