Mini DVDs and my MacBook

I don't see a real viable way to get it off of the mini-dvd onto the Mac without a Firewire. Sorry!

I have a sony dvr (mini dvd) camera and have been able to put these directly into my old pc, do the rough cuts there, and burn to a regular dvd, then into imovie. It does affect the quality some, but is bearable till I can get a dv camera again. (Had a panasonic that quit after 1 season.) If your camera will feed into a dvd player you cld copy there & go on. If you need conversion software after that, mpeg streamclip does work. City Lights

I had a similar problem at first until I realized my camera was compatible with iMovie. What I did prior was I took an external DVD drive/burner and connected it to my computer via Firewire (you could use a USB one too). The important thing here is that the external drive is a tray loader instead of a slot drive. The trays have a small indentation for the mini DVDs. Once you loaded up the DVD in the drive, you can open up iMovie '08 and import directly in with no problems.

I'd try to use someone's mac/pc that has a tray loading drive and copy the content to a standard DVD or HDD as data, there are then various methods available for importing your media.