I purchased a Macbook Pro earlier this year. I have a Sony PD170 Camera and I am not able to get it to work with iMovie or FCP X. I purchase a 800 firewire cable with a mini 4 pin so it would attach to the camera. Am I missing something?
Final Cut Pro X, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
With the camcorder OFF, connect the camcorder's DV port to the Mac's firewire port. Power up the camcorder and put it in "Play" or "Play/Edit" mode.
Launch iMovie. Under "File" select Import or Capture - it depends on the version of iMovie you are using. Follow the prompt. The video will import.
This is the same for ALL miniDV tape based camcorders and not specific to the PD170.
Hopefully you are recording standard definition DV format to the miniDV tape and not DVCAM format. iMovie won't understand DVCAM format. Only DV format (and HDV over firewire and AVCHD/MTS over USB).
Have you checked the Sony web site for compatibility with Mac OS X 10.7? Is there Sony software that needs to be installed? You'd do better asking Sony.
The camera does not come with any drivers. I wish it was that easy.
Thanks for the response, but I have tried that. I had FCP Studio and it worked great on my old powermac. I just cannot get to recognize my camera on my new computer.
The Sony PD170 is a 9 year old camera. Again, check with Sony if the camera is compatible with OS X Lion 10.7
There is no software for the camera and I don't see where the camera is not compatible.
Here is a link to the PD170 forums, ask there.
"There is no software for the camera and I don't see where the camera is not compatible."
Counter logic doesn't work.
My sony pd170 will not work with my macbook pro
