Panasonic DVD camcorder to Mac

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Panasonic DVD camcorder to Mac

A friend asked the following question of me, which I cannot answer. Maybe someone here can:

I'm a relatively new Mac user and have had a Panasonic DVD Video Camera (VDR-M50) for a few years. I'd like to begin to use my Panasonic on my Mac for video and pic editing and can't get the camera to talk to my laptop. I was given this Mac. It's a PowerBook G4 OS X. Any tips?

Right now, I don't have other details.

Posted on Dec 27, 2006 7:25 PM

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Dec 27, 2006 10:13 PM in response to Jeff Rease

A DVD video camera is built for recording and playing on the TV without editing. The video is highly compressed in a format (MPEG-2) that is not intended for editing.

Now, if your Mac has a tray-loading DVD drive (not slot-loading), you can rip a FINALIZED DVD for editing in iMovie. But it requires time and quite a bit of hands-on for each disc.
http://danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/tips_tricks/6010.shtml

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