Canon zr50 not recognized in Firewire profiler or imovie

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Canon zr50 not recognized in Firewire profiler or imovie

I have a canon zr 50, which worked fine before the upgrade to tiger and imovie HD, since the upgrade this camera no longer works or is supported? http://www.apple.com/macosx/upgrade/camcorders.html the zr 40, and 45 are supported which are the same camera but the top of the line zr 50 which only adds an accesory shoe is not. This camera is not old by any standards and does not have a scratch on it and Apple wants me to buy a new camera just so it is supported? What gives? Should I spenda couple of hundred bucks on a camera that may not work in two months on Ilife'06 or leopard?

Posted on Oct 18, 2005 11:29 AM

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Answer 1

SDIllini

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Oct 18, 2005 1:11 PM in response to Louis Melledy

Hi Louis:

Just a couple of thoughts because I really don't know...

*Be sure FileVault is not on
*You have to set the camera to "Card" mode instead of "Tape" mode when using that camera with iChat-it
i might
help? Don't really think so tho-

Sue

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Answer 2

Oct 18, 2005 1:20 PM in response to SDIllini

thank you but no,

hopefully in 10.4.3 they will fix this ridiculous oversight

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Answer 3

Ricktoronto

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Oct 18, 2005 7:49 PM in response to Louis Melledy

Well Louis that list is so ancient and behind the times of the cameras available it is not of much use to determine if you have a "non-compliant" camera or not. It is compliant as it is as you say the ZR 40,45...etc. What do you mean when you say it doesn't work?

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poppijade

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Oct 18, 2005 8:42 PM in response to Louis Melledy

You might try trashing the iMovie preferences, shutting down, restarting your computer with the ZR50 attached and "on". Then start iMovie. Make sure there are no other FW devices that handle video or sound connected and that the FW connection for the camera is direct( eg. not through a hub). The ZR 50 is not that different than the previous models. Canon tends to be touchy as a camera. You also could use QT 7.0X as a test to see if your camera can communicate with your computer. There are other posts on this Forum about how to handle DV cameras, like Canon's, that are "touchy".

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Answer 5

Oct 19, 2005 11:16 AM in response to poppijade

I have a Canon ZR60 and I'm having the same problem. I just bought a new iMac and new dual 2.7 PM with Tiger (10.4.2), looking forward to using my camera with iMovie on one or the other. But, I can't get iMovie to recognize the camera. I'll try the suggestions listed and see what happens.

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Answer 6

Ricktoronto

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Oct 19, 2005 1:48 PM in response to Jeff Rease

For Canon, ensure nothing else on the FW bus, no ext HD and no iPod or especially iSight, and then start the cam in VTR mode, start playing and pause manually - then start iMovie. That should put all evils to bed.

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Bob Cozzi

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Oct 19, 2005 3:12 PM in response to Louis Melledy

I had a similar issue with my CANON Optura 40 earlier this year.

First, does the Mac see the camera at all when you connect it? Do you hear a chime?

I actually had to do this, connect it to my IBM Thinkpad and wait for it to recognise it. Then I unplugged it from the ThinkPad and plugged it into the Mac. At that point it recognised it and did so from that point on.

One final thing, make sure you have it plugged into the power outlet, for some reason some units don't send the same power when using battery as when using the A/C outlet.

Hope it helps.

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Answer 8

Oct 19, 2005 10:15 PM in response to Bob Cozzi

I tried all suggestions with my ZR60 and got no results. I did also check Profiler-Firewire to see if anything shows. It sees an "unknown device".

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Answer 9

Oct 27, 2005 7:39 AM in response to Jeff Rease

After trying to connect my camera on various Macs and MacOS versions, I feel my problem is with my camera's Firewire port. I'll need to try another camera to be totally sure.

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