iMovie '09 shows incorrect time of day in clip

I have the same problem with my Canon HF S100. Time time in iMovie is shifted. Is there any way to resolve this?

Five hours off is suspicious if you are in the East coast. That would convert the time to Greenwich Mean Time, which could also be a default. I would recommend checking your camera to see if there is a setting for Time Zone as well as time of day. Come to think of it, if it is five hours early, it is probably a setting on the camera. If it is five hours late, it is probably a setting on the Mac. If it was on the Mac, all cameras should be affected.

My time zone is set to Los Angeles (this would mean PST). And I get 8 hr time difference problem in iMovie.

I had the same problem. So, I messed around with the current time zone setting on my Mac. My clips were off by 14 hours, so I moved my time zone ahead 14 hours, restarted iMovie and reimported from my Canon HF100. All the clips now had the correct time and the correct timestamped filename (allowing me to recreate an old project that I had saved). Hope this helps.

This is very funny thread, as I noticed the same thing. It never really matter to me as it is the day that mattered , not the time, but I noticed it several times to the point that I keep checking the time on my video camera (Canon HG 10).

Maybe I should also move my camera's date to the future! You did this ONLY for the import or did you just leave it that way?

roger

I have the same problem. However my video time shows 9 hrs ahead of actual record time after importing. Therefore, several of the video clips show an inaccurate date after importing. I've double checked my time/time zone setting on my JVC Enverio and my Mac and both are accurate. Someone mentioned GMT and for whatever reason this seems to have something to do with it since Okinawa is GMT +9:00 hrs. One thing to note is that I don't have this issue with iphoto using the same camera for still photos.

In the meantime I'll adjust the time on the video clips I import, but I hope there is a solution for this.

I have this problem as well. I import video from various camera's and am experiencing a time shift on the imported footage. My Mac setting - time is correct, my camcorders ( digital format AVCHD ) are all set correct, however I am consistently getting the wrong time on the imported clip. I have checked the actual footage before importing and it displays the correct time in the file name, however after importing, you guessed it, the time is wrong........... Date and time is very important to my work and video processes.... any one know what's going on? A friend is also experiencing the same issues, different mac and camcorders... Hello Apple, you gotta know about this, how do we fix it?

Also - to add

I have adjusted the camera times accordingly just to see if there was a shift in the final imported clip... no change, time is still off. For some reason, the Mac OS or app is reading the clip time wrong.

Sounds like a project for the Dharma Initiative.
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roger

I have the same issue with a Vixia HF200. Filed bug report 7868459. Very annoying...

Same problem here. Camera is Panasonic SDR-S26. Time on both camera and 27" iMac are correct. Time is incorrect after import by -6 hours, which is the offset for my timezone (in Daylite Savings).

Please fix this soon Apple...