Are sony products compatible near mac osx?
Answers: Yes, the frozen drive based DCR-SR42 works in recent times fine with Apple Macintosh computers and OSX and iMovie.
You could turn to http://discussions.apple.com/index.jspa
where you will find that you call for to download and install StreamClip
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/vi...
to deal near the MPEG 2 files from the internal hard drive base camcorder you are using.
Warning: The amount of compression this camera uses to store the video onto that hard drive will result within not so good video. This have nothing to do beside your computer (Mac or Windows based) and everything to do with the compression applied to the video stored on the camcorder's concrete drive.
Since the camcorder connects with USB, it will appear as an statue on the desktop when you connect it correctly, Copy the files like you be copying any other file from one disc to another.
Warning: If you record a video clip longer than twenty minutes, it will be split into multiple clips of 20 minutes each... to be precise... a 23 minute clip will be one 20 minute clip and a 3 minute clip. A 44 minute clip will be two 20 minute clips and a 4 minute clip. This is a consumer hard drive camcorder issue and have nothing to do beside the computer or operating system.
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That "best buy employee" is incorrect. I have be editing video from various camcorders - Sony, Canon and Panasonic - for years. The easiest and best aspect video comes from miniDV tape base camcorders - that is a function of the DV and HDV compression used to store the video on the miniDV cartridge. This is the same across adjectives camcorder manufacturers.
I enjoy captured, transferred and edited MPEG2 (standard definition) and AVCHD (high-definition) compressed video from frozen drive and flash memory based camcorders - they use impossible to tell apart compression - on my Macintoshes. I have Windows computers, too - but I do adjectives my video editing on my Macs. I have edited DVD camcorder video simply twice (and only standard definition). The video from those camcorders is such poor characteristic, I refuse to stifle video from that type of camcorder - it is as bad on Windows as it is on Macs so I know this is not a computer issue, but a storage medium and compression issue.
Just because there is no "bundled" software beside the camcorder does not mean it is not compatible. It newly means you entail to look in a different place for the software tools.
sonys usually do not work next to macs but if it is the hard drive or tape camcorder it will work just verbs it using the 1394 cable firewire cable. If it is a dvd camcorder u are out of luck
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