Sony DCR-SR80
Ok, this has nothing to do with my topic of Email Marking, but I'm so angry. I use a Mac. I want to do more video blogging. Went out to buy a camcorder with a hard drive. Read the reviews and came home with a fantastic looking Sony DCR-SR80.
Took about 15 hours of video with it. Plug it in to learn that it's not compatible with a Mac???
If I want I can buy third party software. Deep on page 21 in the manual is a site that will sell to me for an addtional $153.
The image attached is a screenshot from my chat session with the Sony customer service people.....
Wow that sucks! I hate when manufacturer's only cater to the windows market (I run linux!). Would boot camp or something help you?
Posted by: Saurkro5 | January 26, 2007 at 01:09 PM
I suggest you check out parallels (http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/).
It runs windows along side OSX on your mac. LifeHacker explains it better than I can: http://lifehacker.com/software/parallels/hack-attack-sidebyside-windows-and-mac-os-with-parallels-201451.php. You should be able to save your movie with windows and then access it with iMovie. Hopefully that helps.
Posted by: Todd Cullen | January 26, 2007 at 01:45 PM
Hi Chris,
I'm a bit of a novice at this, but got this to work for me:
When you connect the camcorder, mac recognizes it as a hard drive. If you install this software http://www.isquint.org/ (free) you can drag the files into isquint. Isquint does its thing and then gets the files in the right format for your mac.
From there I was able to create a dvd with multiple unique items on it. I did *not* try to do any editing, so I'm not sure about whether everything works on that front.
Posted by: Jason | February 04, 2007 at 02:49 PM
I use MPEG streamclip to convert the MPEG2 files to DV video. You can then edit in iMovie, or burn direct to a DVD with iDVD. If you don't need to edit and have Toast 7.x or higher, you can drag the clips directly from the camcorder HD onto Toast, and it will burn a DVD. That is the quickest way to get your clips onto DVD without converting to another file format.
Steve
Posted by: Steve Hart | February 25, 2007 at 08:06 PM
hey have you guys found out if this camera works with final cut pro?
Posted by: jason | December 16, 2007 at 04:45 PM