I have a SONY HDR-HC3 HDV 1080i/miniDV camcorder (I can't recall in which year I bought it); my question is this: Is there a way to induce my MAC PRO Retina, running OS X ver 10.8.3, to allow video uploads from the latter camcorder?

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I have a SONY HDR-HC3 HDV 1080i/miniDV camcorder (I can't recall in which year I bought it); my question is this: Is there a way to induce my MAC PRO Retina, running OS X ver 10.8.3, to allow video uploads from the latter camcorder?

Dear Apple Support Community,

1. I have a SONY HDR-HC3 HDV 1080i/miniDV camcorder (I can't recall in which year I bought it);
my question is this: Is there a way to induce my MAC PRO Retina, running OS X ver 10.8.3,

to allow video uploads from the latter camcorder?

2. Follow-up question: With regard to the frist question and issue, does anyone know if I am

Operating System liminted or merely iMovie software limited; it it's the latter, would you direct

me to software that can handle the data from HDR-HC3?

Posted on Mar 22, 2013 11:16 AM

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Mar 22, 2013 11:37 AM in response to pkentropy

For this camera, you need a 4 pin to 9 pin firewire cable. For example, this one... http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=103&cp_id=10301&cs_id=1030104 &p_id=3541&seq=1&format=2

You will need to check if your Retina MBP has Firewire. Some recent Macs only have Thunderbolt. In this case you will also need a Thunderbolt to Firewire Adaptor.

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD464ZM/A/apple-thunderbolt-to-firewire-adapto r

Then it should import into iMovie.

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