Sony DCR SR 82 and iMove compatability
I was having a lot of difficulty uploading video to iMovie with this camera. After praying a while God led me to do a couple things and I want to share them with you!
1. When you plug in the camera it will bring up a list on the camera screen to connect to the computer. Hit the "X" in the upper left corner to get out of that screen
2. Go to the home page and select the middle button (it looks like a file cabinet and is titled "others")
3. Under this list, hit down to get to the second page, and choose the only button, labeled "computer."
4. This will bring up a similar screen but if you choose the top left button(for the HDD) it will connect with iMovie
5. Pray to God!
Hi shmoky23, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Thanks for the post/tip(s), good work & God Bless!
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Print it out and tic one idea at a time.
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◊ Updating QT and/or other updates (to 7 needs v6 to be cleaned out first) QT v.7.0.0-4 needs a clean install to work (I use 6.5.2)
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n)
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o) Trash: com.apple.iMovie.plist and com.apple.iMovie3.plist : files (Xinram)
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I am trying not lose my mind - and I won't even go into the Paralells issues.
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