Hi, I even fold that my trusty card reader would not cope with a special HD 
card, so have tried with another card reader, which is new, and works just 
fine. cheers, Susan.
On 15/11/2010, at 2:55 PM, James / Hans Kunz wrote:

> there seems to be a problem with the newer hd memcard, they are slightly 
> different & if the card reader is not marked then it will not connected 
> proberly to the hd card, hd card like the "sandisk extrem" sdhc card has a 
> higher streaming rate (up to 20mb/s) not all reader can handle that.....
> so check if your reader does accept sdhc cards...standard sd will not do!! 
> officework has a suitable usb stick alike reader for ~ $10.-
> James
> 
> On 15/11/2010, at 12:01, CARLSON John wrote:
> 
>> I have been tearing what little hair I have left, out for a few weeks now.
>> I am using a pretty new card reader to transfer .MTS files from an AVCHD SD 
>> card onto iMovie – video shot using Cannon FS200 HD video camera.
>> When I use an ordinary AVCHD SD card, (not a HD VIDEO labelled AVCHD SD 
>> card) iMovie recognises the files straight away opens the Import window and 
>> allows me to select the .MTS files I wish to import.
>> The HD  VIDEO labelled AVCHD SD card will display the .MTS files within the 
>> ‘stream folder’ but they are greyed out and apparently not recognised by 
>> iMovie as importable.
>> I can use a video converter that turns the files into a .MOV that iMovie 
>> recognises and can be imported. This is a slow and unwelcome addition to the 
>> work-flow.
>> Trying to import files to (Intel) iMac with iMovie ’09. FCE does not 
>> recognise the files from the HD VIDEO card either. Cannot get files straight 
>> from the camera.
>> Do I need a special card reader for HD VIDEO AVCHD SD cards? Is there a 
>> setting (staring at me)somewhere that I haven’t changed?
>> Anybody able to help? Regards John c
>>  
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