Hmmm...I don't have this problem. When I connect the camera via USB and choose "card reader" from the menu on the camera itself it opens iPhoto automatically and tell me I have X-number of items to import (it also shows up as a volume on my desktop, but I ignore it). There's a checkbox that asks if I want to delete items from camera, I always leave this checked, and then when I click "import" it double-checks. Do I REALLY want to delete all items from the camera? Yes, yes I do. And it does. Poof.
However, this creates a different "problem". There's a copy of the videos in the iphoto library, which is fine, but then have to import them into iMovie (also fine, doesn't take long) but that means I have two copies taking up space on my hard drive. Then even when I edit the clips the bits I "delete" are hanging around the iMovie trashcan taking up more space. There's probably a fourth copy hanging around someplace, too, just for kicks. I manually delete raw footage I don't want to keep from iMovie and I also have to delete clip-bits in iMovie that I don't use, as well as empty my iMovie trash. Since I'm not the kind of videoperson who takes oodles of raw footage and keeps it for an-as-yet-to-be-revealed purpose, this works. I only back up completed imovie projects as well as their little compressed Quicktime friends (and the rare "what will I do with that?" footage.) and then leave the original clips in iPhoto. This wouldn't work for people whose head would explode if they had to sift through their iPhoto library to search for clips. But I guess, this isn't all that helpful if you aren't using imovie...hmmm... Bekah -- http://www.missbhavens.com --- In [email protected], "Mike Moon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey folks, > As some of you might have read, I switched to a Mac a couple weeks > back. First off, and sorry Heath, but... I Love the Mac! > > When I have the Xacti hooked to the Mac and I delete the pictures, > they go poof, gone. > But did they? > When I look at that Xacti through the Mac to the SD card in the Xacti, > it is empty. But when I use the camera, all the video is still there. > How do I delete (real delete, erase, gone from the memory card, poof, > no more, gonzo.)videos on my Xacti USB camera, through the Mac? > > Thanks, > > Mike > http://vlog.mikemoon.net >
