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hovis100 - Jul 29, 2005 - 6:55 am

Hi,

I have recently being given a Sony DCR DVD403 camcorder. I believe this camera may not be compatible with my powerbook. Does anybody know if this is correct.
Is there a way of loading video from this piece of kit onto my mac.

The operating system is mac OS x tiger

Thanks


Mart

philippe99 - Jul 29, 2005 - 10:01 am

Martin, welcome on macosx.com

...and sorry, not good news:
http://www.camcorderinfo.com/bbs/t115232.html
http://www1.bottomdollar.com/pur_dis...id=144370#1663

However, I can help you in ripping the Sony DVD (if it can be ripped..) on your mac and then view it (with Apple DVD player) or VLC

Regards
Philippe

hovis100 - Jul 29, 2005 - 10:28 am

Hi Phillipe,

I would appreciate the help you have offered to rip the DVDs so I can put them on my mac.

Thanks

philippe99 - Jul 29, 2005 - 11:09 am

Martin
When you've the DVD from the Sony

To play
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perhaps the Apple DVD player is able to view directly like it; just test it;
otherwise downlaod VLC, the most complete freeware DVD player on the market
www.videolan.org

If not, it is time to rip it

Ripping
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Use MacTheRipper to rip you whole DVD - to a VIDEO_TS folder on your mac
http://www.ripdifferent.com/~mtr/

The VIDEO_TS can be be opened (and played) in Apple DVD palyer or in VLC

To clone the DVD (if you have a DVD burner): the free solution
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From the VIDEO_TS folder, use DVDImager to crate a DVD Image of this VIDEO_TS folder
http://lonestar.utsa.edu/llee/apples...dvdimager.html
and finally use the burn facility of DiskUtility to burn a blank DVD

Just two things: (a) the final size of the image of the DVD to be burnt must in the valid range of a DVD-R: 4.7G !
(b) you must have at least twice the size of DVD to copy free on your hard drive to proceed this manual procedure !

To clone the DVD (if you have a DVD burner): the commercial solution
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Still from the VIDEO_TS or directly from the DVD Sony burned
PopCorn, a commercial app - http://www.roxio.com/en/products/popcorn/index.jhtml - does all this one trick plus is able to compress a whole DVD to fit in the range of 4.7G
Well, for 50 $ ....


On these infos of course on ripping/burning for ..playing. I've no idea hox to use the SONY DVD within iMovie or iDVD

Just have a look, test and do not hesitate to post back for any other question

Philippe