Hi, Nancy,
I'm not certain, but I don't think that camcorder will work with a Mac. I believe that with the exception of Sony's MiniDV camcorders, their units only worked with Sony's proprietary, and Windows only, capture software. But someone else might be able to say for certain. But if you're working with tapes from a 90s-edition Handycam, it might not be Digital8 at all and so not work on that TRV530. You'll need to confirm, probably with Sony, what format your tapes are and what unit can play them.
EDIT: I see from your other post that the tapes are from a CCD-TR6. I'm 99% certain that those tapes will not work in the TRV530, though again you'll want to confirm with Sony. I think, though, you'll need another camcorder of the same generation/model as the TR6 to play those tapes, and then use an analog-digital converter as I mention below.
If the unit you have now, or get if you don't have any working camcorder at all, has composite or s-video outputs, you could use one of the analog to video converters. There are several devices for converting between analog video and DV/Firewire. The ones that seem to get the most consistently good reviews are ones from
Canopus and the
Formac Studio Deluxe. Units typically cost in the neighborhood of $300.00 US. Then you would capture using software such as iMovie.
There are services that for a fee will take video tapes and convert them to digital format. It may be cheaper, if you don't have a working camcorder now, to use on of these services rather than having to buy a camcorder, which will probably be obsolete when you buy it, and perhaps a converter as well. It will of course depend on how many tapes you have to convert.
For further information, you'll probably want to post in the Using your MacBook forum, or perhaps the iMovie forum, since it's not an issue with your MacBook's display per se so this thread may not be seen by those with appropriate knowledge.
Regards.
Message was edited by: Dave Sawyer
Message was edited by: Dave Sawyer
