20 Most Recent Canon VIXIA HF20 High Definition Camcorder Questions & Answers

Get an adapter to connect these cards directly to your PC an see if you can read them. Probably a USB adapter.

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It's a loose cable connection in the LCD. Mine started to do that and if I push the open LCD panel toward the lens slightly it corrects. I have a little tutorial I made on how to take it apart here: http://www.tomorrowsgarden.net/content/how-repair-canon-vixia-camera-black-screen-issue

Hi,
Your device already has an USB 2.0 Hi-Speed
interface which is the fastest pc offers right now. You must make sure that your computers usb port is also a usb 2.0 some computers do mix them on one machine . The other problem is that the read speed of the internal memory of your recorder is slow. The average is about 4 megs/sec so if you do the math for a 1 gig movie you have a long wait . Your usb port can transfer 400megs/sec . So what you can try is they now make very fast SDHC cards that can transfer 30meg/sec. Your recorded does take an optional card. Try recording your movie to the new card and and then insert the card into a card readed (USB 2.0) in see if that helps. It may even work if you keep it in the video recorder and use its usb port. Hope this helps

Be sure that you have installed he driver correctly ..and the cable is well plugged...,another thing to check is the camera's display and see if it asks for a connection confirmation in the moment you plug it in ...if it does..choose PC connect ..and after that will work ..
also check into the device manager and see if the camera is present there ..even if it appears in yellow with an ask sign on it ...this meaning that the driver is not installed or damaged or not the proper one..
http://software.canon-europe.com/products/0010719.asp
select the operation system ..download ..reinstall and go for it ...but first check what I suggested..

Hello there,
Yes, it is possible. But you will be required to take off the hard drive and then connect it to your computer. You will then need to use a software like Recuva to retrieve deleted files. Make sure also that you are not going to write anymore data on the hard drive so that recovery would still be possible.
Let me know how that goes.
Goodluck!

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Just get this tool to help you.
1. load your file to Video Sharer
2. choose vob format
3. click" convert" button.
Then you will get the right format.
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I have Canon Vixia HF20 A and I when installing the Pixela Application that comes with it, I used the numbers under the battery. You'll need to concatenate all three numbers together as in my case for it to be correct... e.g 111122223333, 1s represent line 1, 2s line 2 and 3s line 3.

You need an editing program, and then you will transfer the files from within the program ...

This camera stores the video using a unique method, and does not allow you to simply drag and drop the video files - you also can not easily find the camera and play the video real time to transfer it ...
You need a compatible software program, meaning the software needs to be compatible with the camera ... there are many available ... but if you are looking to buy software check to see if it is compatible with your camera before purchasing ... I wonder, what software will you be using to edit the video?
For example, you can use Final Cut Express. It will find the camera as long as the camera is connected via USB and there is power applied to the camera ... once connected, look at the camera LCD screen and select "Computer" for the connection ... then, in Final Cut Express, select Log and Transfer (File menu), and you will get a new window. You camera should be recognized and you can select the video takes that you want to transfer and then hit "add selection to queue" and the transfer will begin.
You will first want to check in Final Cut Express where the transfers will end up on the computer, and pick a suitable location with plenty of hard drive space (Final Cut Express menu / System Settings / Scratch Disks) so you can find them if you want to at some point in the future.

Assuming you will be editing in Final Cut Express, you won't actually need to find them, but its important to select a scratch disk location that has plenty of hard drive space, and if you want to copy one of the clips to use it directly to just upload to YouTube or something like that, you'll know where they are (they will be .mov files, and can play all by themselves using Quicktime or any similar program)

As always, refer to the manual if you run into any problems ...
Hope this helps!

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This camera stores the video using a unique method, and does not allow you to simply drag and drop the video files - you also can not easily find the camera and play the video real time to transfer it ...
You need a compatible software program, meaning the software needs to be compatible with the camera ... there are many available ... but if you are looking to buy software check to see if it is compatible with your camera before purchasing ... I wonder, what software will you be using to edit the video?
For example, you can use Final Cut Express. It will find the camera as long as the camera is connected via USB and there is power applied to the camera ... once connected, look at the camera LCD screen and select "Computer" for the connection ... then, in Final Cut Express, select Log and Transfer (File menu), and you will get a new window. You camera should be recognized and you can select the video takes that you want to transfer and then hit "add selection to queue" and the transfer will begin.
You will first want to check in Final Cut Express where the transfers will end up on the computer, and pick a suitable location with plenty of hard drive space (Final Cut Express menu / System Settings / Scratch Disks) so you can find them if you want to at some point in the future.

Assuming you will be editing in Final Cut Express, you won't actually need to find them, but its important to select a scratch disk location that has plenty of hard drive space, and if you want to copy one of the clips to use it directly to just upload to YouTube or something like that, you'll know where they are (they will be .mov files, and can play all by themselves using Quicktime or any similar program)

As always, refer to the manual if you run into any problems ...
Hope this helps!

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This camera stores the video using a unique method, and does not allow you to simply drag and drop the video files - you also can not easily find the camera and play the video real time to transfer it ...
You need a compatible software program, meaning the software needs to be compatible with the camera ... there are many available ... but if you are looking to buy software check to see if it is compatible with your camera before purchasing ... I wonder, what software will you be using to edit the video?
For example, you can use Final Cut Express. It will find the camera as long as the camera is connected via USB and there is power applied to the camera ... once connected, look at the camera LCD screen and select "Computer" for the connection ... then, in Final Cut Express, select Log and Transfer (File menu), and you will get a new window. You camera should be recognized and you can select the video takes that you want to transfer and then hit "add selection to queue" and the transfer will begin.
You will first want to check in Final Cut Express where the transfers will end up on the computer, and pick a suitable location with plenty of hard drive space (Final Cut Express menu / System Settings / Scratch Disks) so you can find them if you want to at some point in the future.

Assuming you will be editing in Final Cut Express, you won't actually need to find them, but its important to select a scratch disk location that has plenty of hard drive space, and if you want to copy one of the clips to use it directly to just upload to YouTube or something like that, you'll know where they are (they will be .mov files, and can play all by themselves using Quicktime or any similar program)

As always, refer to the manual if you run into any problems ...
Hope this helps!

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