HITACHI DZ-MV238 - please help!

[astacat]

Please help me!!! I have imac, MAC OS X, and DVD video cam HITACHI DZ-MV238 whith USB cable. HOW CAN I IMPORT VIDEO? When I connect the cam to my mac, I only see it in the System Profiler , no one program recognizes it. Caterina

[MikieV]

... When I connect the cam to my mac, I only see it in the System Profiler , no one program recognizes it.

What does the System Profiler listing for it say? Is it "seen" as a camera? Is it "seen" as a USB mass-storage device?

With a disc with video recorded on it installed in the cam, and the camera in "Play" mode - connected via USB - does the camera appear on the desktop as a storage device? If so, you should be able to drag the DVD's files to your hard-drive with the mouse - and see the file copy take place.

If the camera does not conform to the "USB mass storage device" standard - you would need to install software drivers to recognize the drive, which would probably be PC-only.

If you can't get the USB transfer to work, you may need to record on DVD-R discs, in the future, so you can read them from your Mac's DVD-Rom drive (or Superdrive, et al, if you have one).

There is a thread(s) here, about jazzman's attempts at getting DVD-RAM discs to work on his Mac - the discs having been recorded on a Panasonic DVD recorder. For him (I assume , which is always dangerous!), it involves buying an inexpensive drive that reads DVD-RAM disks, and using a program called ReadDVD to allow the Mac to mount the DVD-RAM-formatted disc to the desktop.

Mike

[MikieV]

I checked the Hitachi website, and found a .pdf copy of the manual for your DZ-M238EAU.

Says it is USB 1.1, but nothing about whether is is "mass storage" compliant. Hitachi sells a PC-connection kit that will work with Win98, Win2k, and WinXP - which includes a "device driver" for the camcorder, but no mention that the driver is/is not required for XP (since - normally - XP and MacOS X have USB Mass Storage support built-in).

Hitachi's PC kit also contains a program for accessing the UDF2.01 file-format used on the DVD-RAM disks.

The manual also lists some conditions that cause problems: camera connected via USB hub, and another USB device on the same USB bus.

Also, if trying to read from a DVD-R disc - the disc must be "finalized" first.

Mike

[astacat]

Hello Mike, thank you for reply!
Inside System Profiler the camera is seen as "DVDCam DZ-MV 2xx Series".
This is the reason for my hope!!! But, no icon appears on the desktop.
Hitachi doesn't support MAC OS users... My computer is Power Mac 6,1 with CD-RW/DVD-R drive. I use DVD-ram instead of DVD-R , making photos and video on the same disk - you can't do it with DVD-R. I'm new for digital video and already very sad! )[/u][/b]

[astacat]

Ok, it seems to me that nobody has ever had similar problems... ((
Maybe, someone knows if this programs would help?
http://www.softarch.com/
http://www.heuris.com/

[SERBIAN]

Go here : http://paco.to/ and leave the guy a message with the question...He has some Hitachi camera, maybe he can help You...I made him a solution to convert his VRO files to QuickTime codecs, but I dont know how he transfers files from camera to Mac...

[astacat]

Thank you Serbian, I will try to contact him.