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What is the problem with SONY HardDisk camcorder & iMovie??

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I have varied success with importing from my USB SONY Hard Disk Drive Camcorder into iMovie. It just Doesn't work?

any help?

I have a SR60 Sony.
 
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I did some Googling and got this discussion here:
http://www.digitalcamera-hq.com/camcorders/sony-dcr-sr60_question.html?qid=6403

The following snippet seems relevant to your particular model:
According to SONY's FAQ, it isn't looking good:
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USB streaming video or video transfer is not supported in an Apple® Macintosh® environment. When exporting video from the Apple® Macintosh® to the digital camcorder, the information needs to be sent in Digital Video (DV) compressed mode.
Click to expand...

If there's one thing Sony is consistent at, it's their inconsistency, as the rest of that FAQ shows. Why can't they just stick to the standards once and for all?
 
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Which version of iMovie and what model camera?
 
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I have a SR60 and run iMovie08.

I have imported before, but it is generally hit & miss, I just can't the sequence right. ie: turn on the sony camcorder 1st, then start iMovie. I dunno, it is real frustrating. I have also Movie HD from iLIFE06, and no connection or import luck there.
 
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If the clips don't import directly try converting them with ffmpegx or mpeg stream clip or similar and then after that import them in to imovie.
 
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I am having the same problem with my SONY DCR- SR200. I movie automatically closes when I try to open it and quicktime doesnt recognize the clips. When I bought it the sales person "guaranteed" me that it would work with Imovie 08. No luck. Help!
 
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I had to help my spanish teacher with this same problem a few weeks back. I ended up just taking the files and converting them in a batch converter. Forgot the name of the program. It will be much faster to do this if you don't wanna wait for the videos to capture. (depending on the length)
 

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