I use Canon's Camera Window software to view files while they are still on the memory card (via a card reader). Then I select the video files to download to my Movies folder, leaving the still photos alone. Once the videos are on my computer, I use Canon's Image Browser program to rotate the movies that I took in vertical orientation, so I can view them without keeping my head at a 45 degree angle. It's the only free program I have known that could do this.
Finally I close those programs, dismount the Canon volume, and unplug the card reader. Then I tell the computer to open photos in iPhoto (via the Image Capture app), reconnect, and download the stills into iPhoto. I have been using this two-fold approach for a few years, using iPhoto 4, which is all I've ever known until I bought the new iMac recently. I know you can download movies into iPhoto these days, but this was not so in iPhoto 4. I haven't yet explored iPhoto '08's capabilities, and when I do perhaps I won't need the Canon software anymore. But right now I've got three cards full of pictures and videos and I just want to get 'em off there and onto the new computer so I can look at them. Hope this answers your question. on 7/15/08 10:02 PM, Profile at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jim, > > I am sorry I can't answer your question but can you tell me what the > Canon software DOES for you? What features, how is it to be used?. > > John > > On Jul 15, 2008, at 9:33 PM, Jim/Marcia Bennett wrote: > >> I keep bumping into a roadblock when attempting to install Canon >> camera software on my new iMac running Leopard. >> Isn't there a way I can summon up an authentication box even though >> Canon is too lazy to present it to me? >> Any help will be appreciated. >> >> Thanks. >> >> Jim _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be September 23 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address: MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
