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How do i transfer videos from my video camera to my mac book air laptop?

  • please help. i need to know how to transfer videos from my canon video camera to my mac book air laptop. do i need to download anything or does it just do it automatically? thanks so much & 10 points to best/ most helpful answer <3

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    You did not tell us which Canon video camcorder. MiniDV tape based camcorders must have a firewire connection. You cannot transfer video from miniDV tape based camcorders to an Air because the Air has no firewire port and no way to add one. Flash memory and hard disc drive camcorders connect using USB but this assumes the RAM in the MAcBook, version OSX and version of iMovie can deal with AVCHD compressed video (if the camcorder is high definition). Use Image Capture (in the Applications: Utilities folder) to set the default to launch iMovie when the camcorder is connected and placed into Play/PC mode. If the camcorder is not high definition, then the files need to be copied then converted using a transcoder - MPEG StreamClip from www.squared5.com and Handbrake from www.handbrake.fr are both good - there are several others. This method can be used for the high definition MTS files, too.

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