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Q: Import DV tape to imovie 10 stops

I am trying to import home video from a Sony DCR-HC20 into imovie10.1 via Lightning port (running on a mac mini, Yosemite 10.10.5)

Sometimes the entire tape imports, no problem.  Most of the time it stops at roughly 3 minutes of importing.

the import window continues to play/show incoming images from the camera; but it is not getting imported into the Event.

I have tried the basic solutions (rebooting, checking updates, etc), with no change.

What am I missing?  Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Mac mini, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)

Posted on Nov 26, 2015 7:16 AM

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  • by Feste Ainoriba,

    Feste Ainoriba Feste Ainoriba Jan 1, 2016 8:29 PM in response to dad2meve
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    Jan 1, 2016 8:29 PM in response to dad2meve

    You described the exact problem that I'm experiencing while  trying to import digital video from my Sony DCR-TRV720 Digital Hi8mm Handycam. Except that mine consistently terminates the import at roughly 3 minutes. Like your experience, the import window continues to play the incoming digital video, but it pauses the import.  I'm also having a problem with the softkeys on the import window (<<  >  >>). They are greyed out and inactive.  When I select the import button in the lower right screen, the softkeys change to <<  ||  >> , and it starts importing. When I checked 30 minutes later, the softkeys had reverted to <<  >  >> indicating that the camera was paused, when in reality it continued playing and just the import function aborted so that iMovie stopped capturing the incoming video. I have over 2 Terabytes free on the internal drive where my iMovie library sits, have 20Gigs of RAM, and a MacPro Tower with Dual Quad Core chips, running 10.10.5 and iMovie 10.0. I'm downloading 10.1 now, but based on your post, I doubt that will help.  It has been awhile since I imported from this camera, but it worked flawlessly the last time I did it with an earlier version of OSX and iMovie.

  • by Feste Ainoriba,

    Feste Ainoriba Feste Ainoriba Jan 2, 2016 6:40 AM in response to Feste Ainoriba
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    Jan 2, 2016 6:40 AM in response to Feste Ainoriba

    Correction...In my case, the import says it is "Recording" the entire time, but when I close the import window, I find that it consistently only saved the first 1.9 minutes...the rest of the clip doesn't get saved.

  • by jj6992,

    jj6992 jj6992 Mar 19, 2016 5:17 PM in response to dad2meve
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    Mar 19, 2016 5:17 PM in response to dad2meve

    I have this same problem importing Digital8 tape from Sony DCR-TRV140. I've imported 7 tapes with iMovie 10.1.1. Four of them imported fine. The other three (#3, 4 and 7) stopped importing after 1-5 minutes even though everything appeared as if they were importing. Anyone have an answer?

  • by guiv,

    guiv guiv Oct 4, 2016 2:30 PM in response to dad2meve
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    Oct 4, 2016 2:30 PM in response to dad2meve

    I had a similar issue and found an obscure mention in this apple support post If iMovie doesn't recognize or control your camera or camcorder - Apple Support that might help solve the issue:

    I found that my clock battery had indeed died and there was no date set. Once I set the date properly, all my captures worked flawlessly. It's worth a look.