peterfromeynsford
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Q: My Mac does not see my Sony DCR IP7E. The recorder is 10 or more years old. Is there a solution?

I have a Sony camcorder (handycam DCRIP7E0. It is more than 10 years old. It uses mini cassetts (MICROMV). I would like to move the video from the cassetts to a mac mini or a macbook pro but the Macs do not see the camcorder when I connect it via, what looks like, a digitial cable. Is there a way around this problem or must I take my mini cassets to an AV shop? Kind regards PE

Mac mini, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Apr 26, 2014 8:22 AM

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Q: My Mac does not see my Sony DCR IP7E. The recorder is 10 or more years old. Is there a solution?

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  • by Alchroma,Helpful

    Alchroma Alchroma Apr 26, 2014 5:03 PM in response to peterfromeynsford
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    Apr 26, 2014 5:03 PM in response to peterfromeynsford

    As I recall micoMV is one of the formats that FCE cannot work with directly.

    One option is to transcode the files to an FCE freindly one.

     

    Al

  • by MartinR,

    MartinR MartinR Apr 28, 2014 6:05 AM in response to peterfromeynsford
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    Apr 28, 2014 6:05 AM in response to peterfromeynsford

    It uses a Sony-proprietary recording format.   The movie files are a type of MPEG.  If you crawl through the /MS folder on the recording casette you will find files that have the name MOVxxxxxxxx.MPG where the xxxx's are numbers - these are the video files.

     

    I would try using MPEG Streamclip to see if it can convert the files to QuickTime.  Your camcorder appears to record in PAL (camcorder "E" models are usually PAL) so you would probably select QuickTime/Apple DV PAL in MPEG Streamclip.