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I got a new PC, and i realized that i have lost the Pixela disc that came with my HF10. The PC recognizes the camera, but I cant transfer movies. Is there another software that will do this? I'm sure there is, but I'm a bit lost.
Thanks.
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Originally Posted by cornelious View Post

I got a new PC, and i realized that i have lost the Pixela disc that came with my HF10. The PC recognizes the camera, but I cant transfer movies. Is there another software that will do this? I'm sure there is, but I'm a bit lost.
Thanks.

If you can see the file structure on the HF10's internal drive while connected to pc/or card in camera through USB ..or card in pc card reader...

..then copy only (important: don't "cut") the "Stream" folder and paste it onto your pc hard drive. This has the .mts video files.
Then disconnect the USB via safely remove hardware, turn the camcorder off/put aside..

You can then import the mts files on your pc hard drive into an editor like Pinnacle, etc. (program needs to be able to work with AVCHD).

Or convert the mts files to another format with a free (or paid) file converter.

Otherwise, I think you can purchase the Pixela CD again and, if you do; make sure to make a backup copy.
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Thank you for your help, it seems to be working.
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I've got the same problem, but on the link I can find only an updater to ImageMixer 3 that requires a previous version of the software. Maybe I've not searched correclty, but I can't find the complete software.
Is there some other place?
Thanks
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I'm using PIXELA with a canon s200 on a windows7 64bit machine and it doesn't work well at all. If freezes when importing footage especially when stitching together clips larger than 2gb .You have to go to the library edit program to do this, and the new larger files do not replace the smaller ones, but are placed in a different directory (which you cannot customize). In case you're wondering why the need to stitch these shorter clips together, if you don't and just use the smaller ones, it drops frames when transitioning from one clip to another. PiXELA seems to work a little better in win xp 32 bit, but I still have problems with it not creating the larger clips. This software is aweful, and canon does not suport it, and neither does the company that makes it as far as I can tell.

I've been looking for an alternative, and so far have only found Corel Digital Studio 2010, which seems to work ok, but is a huge piece of bloatware and they want $40 for it. Amazon has it for sale for $6 and says there is a newer version out for $30, so I'm not sure what the version difference is, cause I downloaded the free 2010 trial from Corel, and it seems like that would be the latest. I may try to buy the $6 version and see if it will let me register the downloaded copy with that serial number.

Meanwhile I'm still looking for something better if anyone has suggestions. I'd especially like to find something that would do native splitting and trimming of AVCHD files. Then I plan to use Vegas Pro for the real editing and rendering.
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Any clue where I can find an installer for ImageMixer online? I'm on vacation 8000 miles from home and forgot to install it on my laptop before leaving home. I'd really like to be able to use it here. The link above only points to updates, that can only be used when you've already got it installed. I need the base installer. Any tips on finding it?
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