Importing video to iDVD 6 using SOny DCR-DVD405 Handycam

Hi MoMas:

Welcome to discussions! 🙂

You need DV Tape for iMovie to import directly from your camera. Is it possible to return it? Otherwise:

Using Mpeg (DVD) footage
http://danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/tips_tricks/6010.shtml

some helpful tools:

MPEG StreamClip:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/mpegstreamclip.html
Apple MPEG2 PlayBack Component:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2/
DVDxDV
http://www.dvdxdv.com/


Sue

Hang on, if you are using a converter box, does that not have a switch between analogue and digital?

If so, just keep it at digital and it should import fine,

You're welcome!


Too bad Sony and Apple cannot get together and make a direct import!
We can only hold our breathe. 🙂

Sue

Hello all
I have run into the same issue and bought the DVDxDV.

Now I can view the movies, but the sound is way off.

Is there a option to correct this? Is there a place or company that can turn the Sony Mini DVD's for this camera into MAC happy DVD'd to work off and edit?

Any ideas on what I am doing wrong?

Thank you 🙂
Shelly

I have a sony handycam DCR-DVD405 and it has taken me many, many hours online to find a way to use iMovie to edit my videos. Since I have the iMac desktop, I can't put the mini DVD into my DVD slot. So, I have to put the mini DVD into my windows laptop and use DVD Rip Pro to rip it and burn it as a video CD.

I put the video CD into the Mac and change the .dat to .mpg on the video file.

Since it's a muxed mpeg 1, I use bbDEMUX to separate the audio file from the video file. It saves it as an .m1a file.

I use Mad Audio Encoder to convert the .m1a to an .aiff file.

I import the original .mpg movie file into iMovie and then I import the .aiff file and put them together.

Finally, something works! Hope this helps someone else.