I can’t get my Mini DV camera to connect with my new MacBook?

Friday, April 2nd, 2010 at 8:07 pm

I have a Sony DCR-HC21 mini DV camera
i have the $1299 model of the new macbook

i’ve been to the apple store and talked to emplyees and even the guys at the genius bar
but nothing works
it seems completely ridiculous to me that i cant get a mini dv camcorder ( very very widely used ) to connect with my new Macbook (apple being known for their specialization in media)

can anyone help…….

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2 Comments

Matty Boy says:

April 2, 2010 at 8:38 pm

Do you have a firewire? Is there a firewire on your mac book? If you do then all you should have to do is go to Imovie and go something like file, capture, I have never used a mac but in windows it works that way.
Little Dog says:

April 2, 2010 at 8:57 pm

Sorry to say, but what you want to do won’t happen. The screaming died down about a week after the new MacBooks were released… The new MacBooks (and MacBook Air) have no firewire port.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/152422/firewires_macbook_absence_a_fatal_flaw.html

There is no expansion slot to add a firewire port and there is no firewire-USB converter/adapter/hub/cable thing to use USB.

You have three options:

1) Get a MacBook Pro (it has a firewire 800 port).

2) Get a Mac Mini (every other Macintosh made in the last ten years has a firewire port. Only the NEW MacBooks and the MacBook Air do not.

3) Tranfer analog with a “analog/digital bridge” from Pinnacle (Dazzle) (or Canopus) that uses USB to transfer.