sony Digital Video Camera DCR-DVD 201 and iMovie

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sony Digital Video Camera DCR-DVD 201 and iMovie

I have a sony Digital Video Camera
Posted: Aug 6, 2006 6:59 PM in response to: max Farina
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Can I use this Digital camera with my MacBook Pro
it is a SONY DCR-DVD 201
I do not see a firewire port on the camera ONLY a USB.
How can I get my video from my DVD to iMovie?
I want to put my home video from this camera to iMovie, Can it be done?
I am going nuts, I paid alot of money for this camera and now I can't use it in my new Mac?
I am very new to Mac and this hurts!
PLEASE someone help me, I only see a USB, DO they sell some thing to help get the Video into iMOVIE?
Thanks......

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on Aug 6, 2006 7:09 PM

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JMEH

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Aug 6, 2006 7:46 PM in response to MadisonsMom

You might be better off posting this in the iMovie forum, located here: http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=141

Best of luck, Rick

iMac G5 iSight 20" - 30G iPOD in Slimming Black - Mac OS X (10.4.7) - HP Pav 15" WS and Toshiba Sat 17" WS LP's - Canon 20D & A620

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Duane

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Aug 7, 2006 7:27 AM in response to MadisonsMom

MadisonsMom, Welcome to the discussion area!

Check in the iMovie discussion area, but probably the best advice is to return it for a model with iLink (FireWire) output.

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Doxy

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Aug 20, 2006 6:51 PM in response to MadisonsMom

I also have a Sony DVD camcorder with a usb connection and an imac g5.

I plug my camera in via usb with the disc in that I want to extract the files from. I then drag off the .vob files onto the desktop or a folder. I open the program DVDxDV and open the .vob files into it. Then I 'extract' the movie to a quicktime file that will be compatable with imovie. Then the video can be imported into imovie.

The process is relatively quick and you can extract the segments you want. There are several choices what format to convert to and size.

DVDxDV is $25 for the home user and $80 for a pro version. The demo version is very helpful to use to determine if this is the product for you. The demo video will be watermarked until it is purchased, but you can determine if this is what you need before purchasing.

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