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Is Sony Handycam HDR-SR11 Mac compatible?

Sony handycam and mac?

  • today i just got a mac and i was woundering how to make sony handycam work on a mac without firewire. if i have 2 use firewire then can you please tell me where to get one? i have a macbook pro with 4 ram and i5 processor please help

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    The MacBookPro has a 9-pin firewire800 port. "Handycam" is Sony's generic brand name for all their consumer camcorders - whether miniDV tape, Digital 8 tape, hard disc drive, flash memory or DVD video storage media. MiniDV and Digital 8 tape based camcorders have a 4-pin firewire 400 port - also called i.LINK or DV port. The firewire cable would be 4-pin to 9-pin. I use Belkin or Monster cables. A 1 meter cable should be less than $20. Radio Shack, Fry's Electronics and other computer/electronics stores have them. Guitar Center, too. Consumer hard disc drive, flash memory and DVD based camcorders have no firewire/i.LINK/DV/IEEE1394 connector so there is no firewire cable source to recommend. For hard disc drive or flash memory and miniUSB (camera USB port) to a regular USB (Mac) will work. Dor DVD based camcorders, finalize the disc in the camcorder and use a drawer loading DVD drive - I like the externals from LaCie - and rip the video with an app like HandBrake.

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If this sony camcorder is a minidv camcorder and your mac doesn't have a firewire port connection then, you might be out of luck.

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