Sony DCR-SR82 Handycam Camcorder

i tried my mates sr72e on my intel mac and it worked no prob ,i think u have to mount the camcorder on the mac first without imovie running ,once you mount the disc called "noname" (i think thats what it called) then you open imovie and it should import




hope this helps

Message was edited by: cokeacola

The guy to whom you are responding has a DCR-SR42, you mention a different camcorder that your mate has. Are they the same camcorder?

well ive just purchased the dcr-sr52 and that works without any hitch as well , the difference between the 2 camcorders is only the hard drive size

I brought home the SR82 several weeks ago and plugged it in. It works perfectly as expected. I can open iMovie and grab the movies right in iMovie. Just to be clear I am running the new Mac OS X Leopard and iMovie '08.

Just checking for general input from fellow Sony SR82 (60GB) Camcorder owners/users. Are you all happy with/generally pleased with the quality of the video that the camera takes - or are you somewhat disappointed with the overall quality (especially low light situations)? In bright light, the camera works well for what I need, but indoors, the video is grainy and rather blurry. Keep in mind that I have tested it in "Easy" mode as well as "HQ" highest quality with pretty much the same outcome. I was told by someone that hard drive camcorders do not give the best video quality, but how poor of a quality is considered normal for this camcorder? Aside from that, I love the size and features of the cam. Any suggestions are most welcomed! Thanks!

Playing the devil's advocate here, I have to ask what compels you all to put up with plug-ins here, $20.00 for more software there, connection hassles, a lot of extra work and time and lesser quality video in the end and anything else I've missed here, when all you need for the best quality video, ease of use with ANY iMovie version and less wasted time is a miniDV camcorder, with Firewire. Newer is not always better.

For the low light question - Hard drive cams use high compression, which will give an acceptable image in well lit situations, like outdoors. Shooting indoors, under low light doesn't give the camera enough information to survive the compression well, thus your grainy images. Any hard drive cam will suffer this loss. Tape is far more forgiving and the size of the camera CCD(s) will play a role too. Bigger CCD, better low light performance.

Message was edited by: Forest Mccready

Thanks for your thoughts, I tried to get imovie working with a GVC everio 40 gb and ended up taking it back. Have finally been swayed back to tape based camera after reading all of the problems people keep having with HDD. thanks once again.

Did formatting your sony camcorder erase the video clips that you already had on the hard drive. I have the dcr-sr82 and I can't get iMovie to recognize it. I'm getting ready to buy the add-on, but Apple stated that it supported this camcorder. I can't figure out how. Some people buy the plug in and others just say it works fine with just iMovie. I don't want to lose all my clips by formatting it. Any info you have would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

Hi
I purchased a Sony DCR-SR82 Handycam last year and just recently purchased an iMac. I was wondering if you ended up buying this camera and if so what you have done in order for it to work in iMove 08?
Thanks

Please cokeacola

Can you help me?
We bought the Sony DCR-SR52E Camcorder. We tried to make the camera compatible with our mac. We bought the "mac converter" stuff for 20 euro's, but the only way to get the movies into iMovie is to convert it with MPEG Streamclip. It did cost us much time (12 hours for 7 hours movie)... We don't have iMovie 2008, but we tried it as well at the mac store... it didn't work... do we maybe need the "mac converter" (QuickTimeMPEG2) together with iMovie 2008?
We're very desperate... probably we will buy another camcoder, but no fu**ing Sony.

Thanks in advance,
Greetings,
Marianne and Aart,
the Netherlands.
iMovie 6.0.3
Mac OS X Vs. 10.4.11