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Downloading from a Sanyo xacti digital video camera

I have just started using a Sanyo xacti CA65 waterproof digital video camera which, I have to say, I am delighted with. The format is MPEG-4 AVC/H.264.
The only way I can seem to download to my Mac ig5 is via iPhoto but it only recognises each film clip as a seperate photo so that I end up with 165 seperate 'pics' albiet video clips. This means I have to import each clip into 'quicktime' and then drag it into iVideo after it has loaded, time consuming to say the least. Any short cuts would be much appreciated.

iMac G5, Mac OS X (10.3.7)

Posted on Sep 5, 2007 8:26 AM

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Sep 5, 2007 1:33 PM in response to oldmovieguy

oldmovieguy:

See if you can use Image Capture (located in the Application folder) to upload the video file to the desktop before importing into iPhoto.

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Downloading from a Sanyo xacti digital video camera

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