Canon Powershot Sd970 Is Elph
imovie cant detect my camera?
Whenever I hook up my camera to connect this awesome footage I made to imovie, it says ‘to import video, please connect a camera.’ the problem is, I all ready have a camera hooked up! Can anyone help me figure out what the problem is? Heres my camera type (or at least this is what is on the front of the camera):
Canon
PowerShot SD970 IS
Digital elph
And my imovie type is the latest, or at least when I download the latest imovie type, it gives me a message saying something along the lines of ‘this update is not neccesary.’
If you could tell me what the problem is, it would be a huge help. Thanks!
iMovie is for camcorder-captured video. Not digital still cameras that happen to capture high compression video as a convenience feature. The Canon PowerShot SD970 is a point-and-shoot digital still camera that happens to capture high compression video as a convenience feature.
I *think* your SD970 captures video in AVI files (like my SD1000). iMovie may not be able to deal with AVI files directly.
You did not tell us which Mac, which version of Mac OSX or which version of iMovie.
I am running a 24″ iMac on OSX10.5.8, iMovie version 8.0.6, iPhoto version 8.1.2.
You need to download and install:
1) Flip4Mac
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/flip4macwindowsmediacomponentsforquicktime.html
Once installed, this will let you play WMV and AVI files that QuickTime would not normally be able to deal with.
2) MPEG StreamClip (this may not be needed – but it won’t hurt)
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/mpegstreamclip.html
Once installed…
The next time you connect the camcorder and sync the camcorder images and files to iPhoto, when that sync is done, locate the video in iPhoto and drag the video you want in iMovie to the desktop.
At this point, it depends on the version of iMovie you are running…
Option 1) Launch iMovie. Under “File”, select Import… Movies… and select the AVI file on the desktop. If this does not work, quit iMovie,
Option 2) Launch MPEG Streamclip. Select the video you just dragged to the desktop from within iPhoto or drag that video on the desktop to the MPEG StreamClip window. In MPEG StreamClip, under “File” select Export to QuickTime. Keep all the Defaults and click “Make Movie”. When that is done, quit MPEG StreamClip. Launch iMovie. Under “File”, select Import… Movies… and select the MOV file.
Canon Powershot Sd970 Is Elph