Can only see some videos that are on camera's SD card

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Can only see some videos that are on camera's SD card

I would like to be able to directly import videos from my camera's SD card into iPhoto, but when I put the card in my Mac, only some of the videos show up. If I look in Finder, I can see all the clips, open them in Quicktime, export them to the computer's drive, and then import them into iPhoto (all one at a time), but obviously that is a pain. I apparently can't use the import function in iPhoto to manually import the files from the SD card, because when I try it tells me the fileare in an unreadable format. (The camera records video in AVCHD format, and stores the data in a folder structure that shows up as a package in Finder. iPhoto doesn't let me open the package to go through the folders from its Import browser window, so I can only try to open the top folder, which iPhoto apparently can't parse.)

Any ideas welcome.

Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS20

Mac: Macbook Pro 15" w/ Retina

OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2

iPhoto '11 v. 9.4.2 (710.42)

Thanks.

MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), Mac OS X (10.7.4)

Posted on Dec 6, 2012 8:07 AM

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Yer_Man

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Dec 6, 2012 8:12 AM in response to fnu lnu

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5251?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

Regards

TD

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LarryHN

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Dec 6, 2012 8:21 AM in response to fnu lnu

Does this article help - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5251

You can import into iMovie

LN

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nambuco

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Dec 16, 2012 1:00 PM in response to fnu lnu

I also have a Lumix ZS-20 and iPhoto '11 9.4.2 installed in my Macbook (OSX 10.8.2).

If I shoot the video with standard AVCHD (no progressive), iPhoto can read and import the video. If I use AVCHD Progressive, iPhoto do not see the video and even iMovie is not able to import the video. So, do not use AVCHD Progressive......

Paulo

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fnu lnu Author

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Jun 2, 2013 6:57 AM in response to fnu lnu

Sorry it took so long for me to get back to this. The linked support article addresses the issue directly (thank you both), but the method recommended there (importing the entire AVCHD folder structure) didn't solve the problem. The small number of videos that iPhoto could not see originally also did not get imported, though the ones that it could originally see, did. Luckily since the percentage seems to be small (~10%), it is not prohibitive to open them one by one in Quicktime, re-export them, and then import them into iPhoto. Hopefully this will be fixed in the future. Thank you all for your suggestions.

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