My Canon Vixa HF20 is no longer recognised after I upgraded to Lion. When I plug in the USB cable and try to connect a pop window says "no camera found". I tried reinstalling the Camcorder software but this has not helped. Don't know what to do next...
iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
I have a similar problem with a Panasonic HDC-HS900. I usually connect it via USB and it appears as a drive in Finder.
After upgrading to Lion, this is no longer the case. If I use System Report in About This Mac, it shows Panasonic Camcorder under USB Highspeed Bus.
It does not show up in Disk Utility though.
I have seen another thread where someone's USB drives wern't showing up. They reset the P-RAM. I have tried, twice, but still no luck.
I have a mid-2007 Aluminium 24" iMac.
Same problem with a Panasonic HDC-HS900 after upgrading to Mac OS X 10.7.0 Lion camcord of the hard drive is no longer recognized by the system.
In addition, the camcorder HDC-HS900 when it was connected to the mac and it crashes again you have to disconnect the battery.
Same problem here. Anyone found a fix yet? Will post if I do.
Seems to be a FAT32 mounting problem. Got around by transferring files to a Snow Leopard computer then networking across. Anyone got a Lion FAT32 mounter? That'd solve the problem.
hi, im having the same problem too. Just got a my panasonic hs900 yesterday, quite annoyed that i cant just plug and play. I contacted apple support just now and they are saying to get in touch with panasonic to see when they will be releasing a update of drivers, ive got a feeling knowing panasonics customer care we are going to be waiting a while, just phoned them up for the last 30 mins and every time it kept saying they couldnt take your calls right now please try again later... My camera is crashing too when ever I plug the wire in it gives me the option for pc or record but after that nothing. The thing I dont understand is that sometimes when i plug it in (after countless tries) it does detect the hard drive and the sd card, but every other time it only detects the sd card. Really not sure what to do...
Not clear this is a Panasonic issue... Other are reporting external drives are not mounting in Lion if formatted FAT32. I think we'll have to wait for Apple to update *their* software. Camera works fine with 10.6. Or you can bring up Windows via Parallels or BootCamp and transfer the data there.
I get the same crash - have to remove the battery to clear. Yes, Panasonic perhaps could update their drivers but how would we get them into the camcorder? Send it back? Right.
For now, find a workaround and keep pressuring Apple to recognize FAT32 external drives.
yeah i thought it was a lion issue, but the apple support somehow convinced me at the time that it was panasonic related and decided to leave it at that (after spending a good 20 mins on hold for a reply). I dont think we would have to send our cameras back to be honest there no reason why panasonic could develp a patch that could be applied through the usb cable they provided. yeah i guess bootcamp would be a good idea now ... cheers for the reply... will keep posted if i hear anything back from panasonic.
I can sometimes get my Panasonic HS900 to mount now.
It appears to be a bug in finder. Try opening Terminal, and typing: killall Finder
Then connect your camera, and hopefully it will mount.
How about Canon?
Try this for Canon
These Canon videos can’t be played on Mac because these camcorder video codec is different from video codec of Mac series software. An ideal solution is to convert them to .mp4 or .mov on Mac OS X, which is compatible with Mac .If you would like to manage them easily on your Mac OS X (Snow Leopard, Lion included), Canon VIXIA Video Converter for Mac will help you a lot, which will resolve the key problem of format capability of Mac.
I don't have any problem importing Canon videos to iMovie. It's just that my camcorder won't mount since "upgrade" (downgrade) to Lion.
This is a statement from the Canon website:
"Canon is confirming compatibility of its Digital Compact camera, Digital SLR camera, Digital Video camera and Selphy products with Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion)."
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Looks like you may have to wait a while 😟
I've used both ClipWrap and Skysoft video converter successfully. Format conversion is always easy - once you get the files! When the unit won't mount, it's a bit tougher! (Maybe if I push the cable in *harder*......)
I tried the method u suggested for entering kill all finder into ternimal but unfortunatly it doesnt seem to be working for me... it seams like pure change wheather the HD will be detected or not... its quite frustrating because the SD card is always detected, but never the HD.
Canon Camcorder no longer recognised after update to Lion
