Recording to iMovie from Canon HV20

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Recording to iMovie from Canon HV20

Hi,

I have IMovie 10.0.2 and Canon HV20 connected through the Firewire. I can control the camera in "Play" mode (Start|Stop|Revind) but I cannot control it in "Camera" mode. The Record button is absent and a message "Camera Not Controllable" appears. I want to Start|Stop recording. Is it possible?

iMovie '11, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2), Canon HV20

Posted on Apr 6, 2014 10:44 AM

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Ben Bloks

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Apr 7, 2014 10:19 AM in response to Boldium

Just did some testing with my HV20.

Doesn't seem to be possible to actually record directly into iMovie 10. I tried to use the "import" button. The camera starts running but nothing is really imported.

The only way I managed is to use Quictime 10 to record from the camera (that will work). It will give you a h264 .mov video, that you can import into iMovie.

Ben

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