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NEED Serious Help with JVC GZ-HD3U. Please.

Alright I have just under 2 days to finish this Media Project for school. My group recorded the whole thing and now my JVC Everio GZ-HD3U is giving me problems.

Before I could easily uploaded everything to the Mac. No problem. Then I went to school, plugged the camcorder with a firewire into one of the school's Mac computers and the screen said "No Connection". So then I go home thinking I could just upload it there and put it on a CD. I get there and the camera isn't even showing up! The import button doesn't show up or anything! And I'm pretty sure I didn't mess with any of the settings on the camcorder. The only thing I can think of...was that I had the camcorder in my bag...maybe it hit the ground a couple times? Could it affect it in that way?

PLEASE someone help me out.

Posted on Sep 9, 2008 4:26 PM

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Klaus1

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Sep 10, 2008 2:29 AM in response to Karsten Schlüter

So all you learned was 'did the earth move for you?' 😉

Way back when, in Denmark, we knew a Dutchman who had taught himself Danish by watching endless cartoons in the 'Knold og Tot' series over a period of years.

Now, his Danish was, well, different. Too many sound effects! 😀

Klaus1

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Sep 10, 2008 2:31 AM in response to adri_3

Adri_3

Apologies for hijacking your thread - we Europeans sometimes act like this when we have run out of coffee! 🙂

Sep 10, 2008 2:43 AM in response to Klaus1

Klaus1 wrote:
So all you learned was 'did the earth move for you?' 😉

I guess, it translates literally from Japanese as 'we're leavin' ...' (no 'me' in Japanese afaik)

.. we knew a Dutchman who had taught himself Danish by watching endless cartoons in the 'Knold og Tot' series over a period of years.
Now, his Danish was, well, different. Too many sound effects! 😀

reminds me of an old joke,
'where did you learn German?'
'.. by pffff listening zzzz Deutsche Welle töö via zmzmzmzm shortwave radio...'

PS: welcome to the Dirty Ol' Man Section of this board..

Sep 11, 2008 6:05 AM in response to adri_3

Back to original problem.

Is it possible to make a dub of your material using the analog out and the in on another mini dv camera? Or use the pass through option on the 2nd camera if it supports it. Seems like this would at least help make the deadline.

Dec 3, 2008 12:01 PM in response to Klaus1

A friend of mine gave me a bunch of .TOD files on a DVD-R. How can I convert them to use in iMovie or Quicktime?

Dec 4, 2008 6:33 PM in response to adri_3

Did you ever Figure out how to fix this because I jsut recently purchased a Apple Mac Pro and I have a JVC Everio GZ-HD3u Camcorder also and In tried installing the disc that came with the camera and it gives me error messages, and doesn't even complete the installation. Let me know If you find anything out, because it's killing me not being able to edit my movies!

Dec 4, 2008 9:04 PM in response to Conor Fahey

Rather than revive an old thread, you should start your own, for better response.

The software included with your cam is for the "dark side" computers only. If the camcorder is one that is compatible with the Mac software chosen, there is nothing else needed.

In your case, using iMovie HD6, you can ONLY use miniDV camcorders connected via Firewire.

iMovie 08 will work with other formats of cams, but only if it is on the Apple compatibility list and I don't see yours there.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1014

NEED Serious Help with JVC GZ-HD3U. Please.