downloading stalls from Sony DSC-S90

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downloading stalls from Sony DSC-S90

I am having trouble downloading from my Sony DSC-S90 digital camera to iphoto. The camera has two short video clips (with audio) and about 30 photos on the memory stick.
When I connect to iphoto, it'll download the first 5 photos, then it hits the video clip and stalls. One time it skipped over the two videos and loaded the photo right after the videos, and then stalled, leaving another 24 photos stranded on my camera.
My wife has another model of Sony digital camera, which also takes short video (without sound); with that camera, we can load everything onto iphoto, even the video clips.
I tried loading onto imovie with this camera, but it has a USB rather than firewire connection, and it won't work.("camera not connected" shows on screen.)
Any help greatly appreciated!
Thanks-Remulak

G3 ibook Mac OS X (10.3) using external memory

Posted on Mar 1, 2006 2:05 PM

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Answer 1

Ken.

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Mar 1, 2006 5:43 PM in response to Brainbush

Go into Image Capture, Preferences. Change the camera settings from iPhoto to Image Capture. Now try to download all the images to a convenient folder. If that works, you can import the images into iPhoto manually. Go back to Image Capture and change the camera settings back to iPhoto.

This sounds a bit like a memory card that needs formatting. Once the images are safely on your Mac, find the format command in the Sony menu.

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Answer 2

Brainbush Author

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Mar 16, 2006 9:43 AM in response to Ken.

Thanks! I was able to upload everything using Image Capture, then I dragged all the photos to iPhoto, and the videos to iMovie.
The memory on my ibook is maxed out, so I'm storing my iPhoto and iMovie libraries on an external memory device. I couldn't even make a folder, as there is not enough space! So I had to drag each photo one at a time to iPhoto.
But it worked!

Remulak

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