camcorder drivers for macintosh

[pburtonmd]

seeking advice about camcorders usable with macintosh for editing movies with i-movie or other film editors. Does anyone have experience with connecting sony IP7E to mac or pc?

 

[SexyTech]

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Perhaps you might have better luck in the DOS, MAC area!

Most of us hardware folks play with the PC systems and not MAC...


Good Luck Though!

 

[Yankee Rose]

Take a look <a href="http://www.dvvideo.com/wwwboard/messages/382.htm">here</a>. Seems you'll need to tap directly into the Memory Stick when using it with your Mac.

Are you needing the Mac drivers for this camcorder?

 

[pburtonmd]

Thanks Jody. The earlier postings you referred me to are very informative, but rather depressing re the lack of support from Sony for the IP7E camcorder.

I can easily read the memory stick into the Mac by using a SmartDisk USB Universal Media Reader, a very useful little box for reading flash memories, and cost only GBP 30 in UK.

To edit any reasonable length of film though I obviously need to read the tape and the prospects for doing this on the Mac appear to be nil. None of my PCs have a firewire port installed, and moreover I hear very bad reports of the MovieShaker package which is supplied with the camcorder as a film editor for the PC.

This is all very disappointing since an earlier model Sony camcorder, DCR-110E I think, works fine with the Mac via a firewire port and i-Movie software. A clear case of CAVEAT EMPTOR I suppose!

Peter