Hello everybody,
I have a Sony handycam, a couple of years old, which works with MiniDV tapes and a firewire cable. I almost never use it, but last week I wanted to import some old tapes into iMovie to edit them into one videofile.
Guess what, iMovie doesn't recognize my camera, and sadly there was no way I could get it to work (trust me, I tried, and even asked on another Dutch mac forum for help but no solution).
So I thought, okay, let's just put it on my parents Windows Vista desktop, and the two tapes were imported no problem. They're in .avi, which I know might cause a problem, but I have HandBrake so I can easily convert it to a file iMovie can cope with.
So I connect my week old external HDD (western digital) to the Windows computer, and it doesn't even recognize it. After some googling I found out that disks formatted for Mac aren't going to work on a Windows computer. Okay, that's fine, that's life if you're a Mac user.
So I borrow my Dad's external HDD because I read online that a Mac computer can read Windows external HDD, but not write on it. I transfer everything from the Windows onto the external HDD, and plug it into my MacBook Pro. My MacBook recognizes the external HDD, I can browse through it. Then I wanted to copy the first .avi file to mac (I just put it on the desktop, cause that was the easiest thing to do, I can move it later), and it starts copying. The file is several GB's big so it needed some time so I just spend some time on the Windows computer. Then, at the end of the copying process, I get an error code, number -26. It says (translated from Dutch) that the Finder couldn't copy the file because it contains content that he can't read or something.
I am soooo frustrated right now! How do I get these 2 .avi files on my MacBook Pro, so I can edit them into a video? It's just 2 MiniDV tapes that I shot last summer at vacation. I am seriously considering throwing all the computer stuff that I own out of the window. I don't consider this Apple's fault or Windows' fault, but I just switched last October/November (not sure), and while haven't had much trouble switching, this really throws me off. Why is it sooo hard to transfer two bigger size files from Windows to a Mac operated system? I use my USB stick all the time for other smaller files to be transferred, but unfortunately these files are too big.
Any help would be immensly appreciated!!!
- Eline
(PS: if you have any trouble understanding any of this, I'm sorry, I am Dutch, so it might be a language problem. If you just ask I'll try to clear it up for you )
I have a Sony handycam, a couple of years old, which works with MiniDV tapes and a firewire cable. I almost never use it, but last week I wanted to import some old tapes into iMovie to edit them into one videofile.
Guess what, iMovie doesn't recognize my camera, and sadly there was no way I could get it to work (trust me, I tried, and even asked on another Dutch mac forum for help but no solution).
So I thought, okay, let's just put it on my parents Windows Vista desktop, and the two tapes were imported no problem. They're in .avi, which I know might cause a problem, but I have HandBrake so I can easily convert it to a file iMovie can cope with.
So I connect my week old external HDD (western digital) to the Windows computer, and it doesn't even recognize it. After some googling I found out that disks formatted for Mac aren't going to work on a Windows computer. Okay, that's fine, that's life if you're a Mac user.
So I borrow my Dad's external HDD because I read online that a Mac computer can read Windows external HDD, but not write on it. I transfer everything from the Windows onto the external HDD, and plug it into my MacBook Pro. My MacBook recognizes the external HDD, I can browse through it. Then I wanted to copy the first .avi file to mac (I just put it on the desktop, cause that was the easiest thing to do, I can move it later), and it starts copying. The file is several GB's big so it needed some time so I just spend some time on the Windows computer. Then, at the end of the copying process, I get an error code, number -26. It says (translated from Dutch) that the Finder couldn't copy the file because it contains content that he can't read or something.
I am soooo frustrated right now! How do I get these 2 .avi files on my MacBook Pro, so I can edit them into a video? It's just 2 MiniDV tapes that I shot last summer at vacation. I am seriously considering throwing all the computer stuff that I own out of the window. I don't consider this Apple's fault or Windows' fault, but I just switched last October/November (not sure), and while haven't had much trouble switching, this really throws me off. Why is it sooo hard to transfer two bigger size files from Windows to a Mac operated system? I use my USB stick all the time for other smaller files to be transferred, but unfortunately these files are too big.
Any help would be immensly appreciated!!!
- Eline
(PS: if you have any trouble understanding any of this, I'm sorry, I am Dutch, so it might be a language problem. If you just ask I'll try to clear it up for you )