Okay, I’m a pretty patient person, but this video camera thing was almost the end of me. I think I read every single Mac Forum for months on the subject and nothing ever seemed to work.  The recommendations were always too complicated or required me to buy special software to convert my files etc.  The camera USED to work with my super old iMac from 2006 and with the older versions of iMovie….but everytime I upgraded I seemed to lose more compatibility.  I was about ready to just send my video camera off to a company to extract everything…..but today I decided to give it one more shot….and it worked.  Here’s how I did it:

First of all, in many of the tech support boards I read there were a few recommendations to try that actually made a difference: [Read more…]