A session playing alongside its footage
Link the footage of a session to the session itself and the two play together: scrubbing the graph scrubs the video, and the video follows the playhead, the lap map, and playback.
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Your video files are never copied or modified. AimMac only remembers where they are.
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Four ways in:
A recording split into chapters (a GoPro's GX01…, GX02…) plays as one continuous video — add all the files to the same link and a chapter boundary becomes an ordinary seek.
An AiM SmartyCam is handled as its own kind of camera, because it knows something no other camera does.
From the card. Put the camera's SD card in your Mac and AimMac recognizes it, lists the clips on it, and imports them — already matched to the sessions they filmed and linked ready to play. Review what it proposes before anything is written, the same as any import.
Syncing is exact, not correlated. A SmartyCam wired to a logger records that logger's own session clock inside the video. AimMac reads it, so a SmartyCam clip lands on the session's timeline to the frame rather than being aligned by matching speed traces. There is nothing to check and nothing to nudge — the sync is the camera's own.
Over USB. A SmartyCam connected by its USB port gets a device page of its own, where you can browse and download clips without taking the card out — plus live view, the camera's settings, and its configuration. See 2. Connecting to Your AiM Device.
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For more than a clip or two, use the card. Over USB a SmartyCam transfers at about 3 MB/s — a 2 GB clip is roughly twelve minutes — because its USB port is a network connection rather than a disk. A card in a reader is limited by the card. Nothing is lost by switching: a clip copied from the card lands in the same place, under the same name, and is paired the same way.
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Open Video → Sync Video…. There are three ways to line the footage up, and they're all the same underlying setting — use whichever is easier for the footage you have.