How do you upload videos from a digital camera?

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How do you upload videos from a digital camera?

I cannot get videos from my digital camera (sony dsc-W80) to upload to my Macbook. When I try to upload them into iphoto with my photos, I get an error message and then nothing (not even the photos) get downloaded. If I pick out the just the photos, it uploads fine. When I try upload the movies in quicktime or imovie, I get the following message:

The disk was not ejected properly. If possible, always eject a disk before unplugging it or turning it off

Any suggestions? Or is there something obvious I'm missing?

macbook, Mac OS X (10.6.3)

Posted on May 2, 2010 10:39 PM

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LarryHN

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May 2, 2010 10:57 PM in response to mkaye

How long are the movies? iPhoto has been reported to have problems downloading large movies

Have you tried using image capture (in your applications folder) to download the movies and tehn importing them?

Once you have everything safely on your Mac it would be a good idea to reformat your media card using your camera's reformat command

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mkaye Author

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May 3, 2010 4:26 PM in response to LarryHN

Hi Larry,
Thanks for your response. When I try to upload using image capture, I get the same error message about the drive being ejected. I don't know if this is an issue caused by the type of movie file (.mpg) or my macbook itself.

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May 3, 2010 4:32 PM in response to mkaye

Sounds like the filesystem is damaged. Have you tried a card reader?

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mkaye Author

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May 3, 2010 6:33 PM in response to Keith Barkley

Hi Keith,
No I haven't tried a card reader, but maybe I should. I'm confused though because the photos upload from my memory card just fine. It's just the videos.

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May 4, 2010 3:01 PM in response to mkaye

Have you ever re-formatted the card? It could be that these video files are bad due to a problem with the card.

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May 4, 2010 6:18 PM in response to mkaye

I have the same problem with my DSC-W55. I just bought a new i7 MacBook Pro and iPhoto has the same problem. It disconnects the camera and complains it wasn't properly disconnected and doesn't import all pictures.

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May 4, 2010 6:48 PM in response to mkaye

I managed to use the Image Capture app to import them to a folder I created on the desktop. Then I imported them into iPhoto as normal. That worked fine. Image Capture failed to import them into iPhoto with the same error.

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mkaye Author

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May 8, 2010 7:24 PM in response to Keith Barkley

No, I've never reformatted the card. I use a PC for work, so I dl-ed the videos to the PC, put them on a zip drive and then moved the files from the zip to my mac. I guess if that's how I have to do it, I will. It's just a bit frustrating.

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mkaye Author

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May 8, 2010 7:25 PM in response to Mike Stoddart

Hi Mike,
I tried this suggestion and unfortunately I didn't have the same success. It still ejected the disc.

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