No sound during import from camcorder

When I am importing video from a DV tape in a camcorder I don't hear any sound. After the clip is captured, you can hear the sound during playback. Is there a setting that allows you to hear the sound during import? I have tried importing HDV format from a camcorder and regular DV from a tape deck with the same results.

iMovie does not play sound on import. This makes sense if you consider that most current camcorders do not import in real time. They are faster or slower than real time depending on the speed of the Mac.
See if your camera has a speaker. You can listen from the camcorder.

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LarryHN wrote:
Once you get your photos use your camera to reformat your media card - problems like this can be caused by a flaw in the card format
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FOUND FIX
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Here's the link so you can download it.
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http://media-converter.sourceforge.net/
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Import from camcorder stops after few seconds. Never used to! Ideas?

Hi you wonderful experts and enthusiast out there.
Been using iMovie HD 5 successfully for a couple of years, but all of a sudden I can't import from my camcorder. I have a long, unbroken, recorded sequence on the camcorder, but when I go to import iMovie imports just a few seconds before stopping. And if I hit import again it does the same, but the "bits" don't match exactly so I cant even splice them together. Which leaves my with no idea how to proceed.
I did wonder if the movie was already too full (unlikely, but the same happened on a brand new movie) and also whether the DV tape was just too old (but the same is happening with a brand new tape).
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Hi
My list of what to try:
Test another FW-Cable.
The GarasgeBand trick. Start GB save a fake project close it. Now try iMovie again.
Test Your Camera on another Mac so that DV-in still works OK
Toogle in iMovie pref: Play-back via Camera (on<->off some times)
Other ways to import Your miniDV tape:
Use another Camera. There where tape play-back stations from SONY
but they costed about 2-4 times a normal miniDV Camera.
If Your Camera works on another Mac. Make an iMovie movie project here and move it
over to Your Mac via an external hard disk.
(HAS TO BE Mac OS Exchange formatted - USB/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange WILL NOT DO)
(Should be a FireWire one - USB/USB2 performs badly)
FireWire - Sure not using the accompany USB-Cable but bought a 4-pin to 6-pin FW one ?
Using WHAT ? :
• Mac OS - X.5.4 ?
• QuickTime version ? (This is the heart in both iMovie and FinalCut)
• iMovie 8 (7.1.?) ?
• iMovie HD 6 (6.0.4/3) ?
Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk ? (Others don't count)
Does Your Camera work on another Mac ?
Sorry to say it is to easy to turn the 6-pin end of the FW-cable 180 deg wrong.
This is lethal to the A/D-chip in the Camera = needs an expensive repair.
(Hard to find out - else than import/export to another Mac ceased to work
everything else is OK eg recording and playback to TV)
Delete iMovie pref file may help sometimes. I rather start a new account, log into
this and have a re-try.
from LKN 1935:
Hi Bengt W, I tried it all, but nothing worked. Your answer has been helpfull insofar as all the different trials led to the conclusion that there was something wrong with my iMovie software. I therefore threw everything away and reinstalled iMovie from the HD. After that the exportation of DV videos (there has not been any problem with HDV videos) to my Sony camcorders worked properly as it did before. Thank you. LKN 1935
from Karsten:
in addition to Bengt's excellent '9 yards of advice' ..
camera set to 'Play' , not rec/computer/etc.?
camera not on battery, but power-line?
did your Mac 'recognize' this camera before...?
a technical check:
connect camera, on, playback, fw-connected...
click on the Blue Apple, upper left of your screen ..
choose 'About../More..
under Firewire.. what do you read..?
Yours Bengt W

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I've been trying to import from my camcorder, Canon Legria HF S20. Tried several times, won't save in iMovie, says 'Missing Camera' in iMovie file after it's finished supposedly importing. I've been trying to import using a usb cable, hitting all the right buttons on the camera. Importing from 2 SD cards on the camera, as well as the Hard Drive.
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To use a camera with FCE, it needs to be DV and have a FireWire connection. Your TRV250 does both. Digital8 is a Sony thing, but under the covers it is a DV codec recording on a Digital8 cassette. There are some technical differences in the tape transport speed and how the magnetic recording is made on the tape compared to miniDV tapes, but the codec itself is DV, and the output via the FireWire connection is also DV. So, it should work with FCE, and iMovie too.
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Photos > View > Show Sidebar
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Heya Crespino,
I've heard of this issue before but don't know the root cause. Oddly it is always with Minolta or Canon cameras. I'm not sure if there is a corolation there.
Thing I would try:
1.) Battery power on your camera should be at full - or run off of AC if you can - thats even better
2.) Make sure the date and time on the camera are in sync with the computer - this affects the computer's ability to see and correctly identify files
3.) Reformat your SD card - this is a function on your camera - I would reformat the card between every shoot- not just delete the pictures - check your camera's manual for "reformat media card"
4.) Try importing with the Image Capture Application - this will usually find any pictures / movies that do not identify correctly in iPhoto -- Esentially it is not nearly as picky as iPhoto is so it would see movie files that are corrupted / or slightly different in format
5.) Consult with Minolta - do they make a drive for this camera under the Mac OS X 10.4 - that might make imports easier for you
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It might be worth your while to view the iMovie tutorials at http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/imovie/index.html because they can answer a lot of questions you may be having with your new computer.
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It might be worth your while to view the iMovie tutorials at http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/imovie/index.html because they can answer a lot of questions you may be having with your new computer.
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When I import into iMovie from my Sony TRV520 camcorder I get a smaller image with black borders. Is there a way to get the full image?
I'm using iMovie 6.0.3

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I tried to measure the speed of the disk using Xbench, but not sure how to interpret the results:
Disk Test 34.78
Sequential 26.56
Uncached Write 11.57 7.11 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 55.80 31.57 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 31.14 9.11 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 70.67 35.52 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 50.36
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You don't say which camcorder you're using.
Many Canon camcorders will NOT work properly with anything else, e.g; an external disc, on the FireWire circuit. Sorry. For those, you'd need to import to the internal disc and then copy to the external, and continue editing with the external drive.
"..Could it be my firewire drive is too slow to record the video?.." No: all modern external FW drives are perfectly fast enough, and a 320gb is certainly a modern drive.
"..formatted Mac OS extended (journaled).." ..are you absolutely CERTAIN..? ..It needs to be, otherwise it'll do just as you describe. And even discs bought for Macs or from Mac stores generally come formatted as "PC Exchange", i.e; MS-DOS formatted. Check it again by right-clicking or Ctrl-clicking it and use 'Get Info'. If it really says "Mac OS Extended" you're OK. If not, you'll need to use Applications>Utilities>Disk Utility, select the name of the disc and click the 'Erase' tab (after you've moved off the disc anything which you might want to keep) and then select 'Mac OS Extended'. CAUTION: be sure that you've selected the external drive: don't accidentally reformat and wipe your internal drive!
"..Are there any settings I can adjust or other things to try?.." No. However..
Some camcorders are not properly recognised by iMovie at first. It pays to open a project which already has some footage in it, play that and then attach the camcorder and try importing. Playing back some existing DV footage often - in my experience, anyway - 'kick starts' the program into accepting more footage from the attached device.
But that only works if (a) the drive DEFINITELY is formatted as Mac OS Extended, and (b) you're NOT using a Canon with an external disc..

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