How to clear out my flip video camera on a Mac?

How do I upload a video from my camera to imovie on my mac?

• i dont know how to upload a video from my camera to imovie on my mac. does anybody know how, please help

• Answer:

  You did not tell us which camcorder. Any miniDV tape based camcorder can transfer standard definition DV with your configuration - you need to get a 4-pin to 6-pin firewire cable to connect the camcorder's DV port to the Mac's firewire400 port. All Mac's made in about the last 10 years came standard with a Firewire 400 port. The only exception is the new MacBook Air. Video from miniDV tape provides the best available video quality. If you do high definition, HDV, you need to to a custom installation of the Apple Intermediate Codec from the MacOSX system discs - it is a QuickTime component. Any hard drive or flash memory camcorder can copy highly compressed standard definition MPEG2 video data file - you need to download and install StreamClip and convert those data files to something iMovie likes... .mov, .dv, .mp4... Video from hard drive or flash memory camcorder is not as good as video from miniDV tape. If your Mac is Intel-chip based, any AVCHD camcorder will work - iMovieHD08 (or FinalCut Express 4 or FinalCut Pro2) is required to deal with AVCHD encoded video. Whether MPEG2 or AVCHD, these compress too much. You won't see any pros using this gear. Any DVD based camcorder (but not any that encode to AVCHD) - IF you have a drawer loading DVD drive in (or connected to) your Mac... NEVER put an 8cm DVD or any other odd sized disc in a slot loader... Download and install HandBrake. http://handbrake.fr/ Rip the video and drag/drop to the iMovie clips pane or timeline. Warning: DVD camcorders are not recommended - they provide the worst available video for editing. I wish the manufacturers would stop making this garbage.