Do Not Use - Pixela Camera Utilities

Canon "FS" video cameras ship with a whole ton of software installation discs. The cameras are great, the software not so much. This is similar to the junk you get when purchasing a new computer from most big-name companies: not-so-great video editors, default music files, and generally useless stuff. It's true that one of those utilities is "necessary" to transfer the video files from the camera, but there's another, probably cheaper, way to do it. Instead of buying all those discs (I'm fairly certain it's actually optional), just get a USB-adapted SD card reader. Pop the card out of the camera, connect it through the reader, and copy the video files out with Explorer. Much cheaper, less junkware.