S60 and Mac - from first principles - part 3

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Continuing Steve's series of 'S60 Mac virgin' walkthroughs, he tackles the thorny subject of video, both transferring it to the phone and doing useful editing on footage from the phone.  Do any of the Mac video solutions play better with Nseries MP4 video files than the current crop of PC editors? In previous parts, he connected up and synced via Bluetooth, and he transferred media and bookmarks using the USB cable.

So far in this mini-series, I've connected my test S60 phone (an N95 8GB) to my trial MacBook using Bluetooth, I've synced PIM data using iSync, and I've transferred photos, videos, music and bookmarks using the USB cable.

Time to get heavy on the bytes though, i.e. what about video? As reported in the last article part, Nokia Multimedia Transfer managed to copy across my N95-shot MP4 videos and Quicktime Player did an excellent job of playing them without any issues.

Read on in the full feature.

Transferring video