[MacDV] Re: Sony DVD camcorders...

[Michael Winter]

On Jun 28, 2004, at 1:40 PM, Preston wrote:

> A friend of mine has one of these Sony DVD camcorders ( model 100 ) 
> and it only has S-video and USB 2.0.  I WAs really surprised that is 
> had no FW. My friend wants a Mac for video editing but is letting this 
> camera get in the way.  I'm not sure how to make it work with a Mac, 
> perhaps the USB2.0 equipped Macs would transfer the video to iMovie 
> ok??

I know they use "mini DV's", but I thought the whole idea was that you 
just put the disk into your computer and copy -no slow, real time 
recording/transfer necessary. Will Mac Superdrives handle these disks?

-Mike