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<blockquote data-quote="MightyGem" data-source="post: 1700961" data-attributes="member: 180699">Going by this:<a href="https://docs.sony.com/release/DVMCDA1.PDF" target="_blank">https://docs.sony.com/release/DVMCDA1.PDF</a>You'll need to connect the Hi8 player to the Media Converter(using a Audio/Video cable), and the Media Converter to your Mac(using a Firewire cable). Your Firewire to USB won't work. You'll need a Firewire to Firewire cable to connect to the Mac. The end that goes into your Mac will be a 6 pin plug, and looking at the manual, a 4 pin to plug into the Converter.<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001TH7GVY/" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001TH7GVY/</a>With everything connected and working, the manual suggests that playing a Hi8 tape should result in a Digital Video(DV) signal going into your Mac. iMovie 09 should then pick it up and import it.However, if I had a $ for every post that I've seen about people having problems getting Sony stuff to work with Macs, I'd be a rich man.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MightyGem, post: 1700961, member: 180699"] Going by this: [url]https://docs.sony.com/release/DVMCDA1.PDF[/url] You'll need to connect the Hi8 player to the Media Converter(using a Audio/Video cable), and the Media Converter to your Mac(using a Firewire cable). Your Firewire to USB won't work. You'll need a Firewire to Firewire cable to connect to the Mac. The end that goes into your Mac will be a 6 pin plug, and looking at the manual, a 4 pin to plug into the Converter. [URL]http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001TH7GVY/[/URL] With everything connected and working, the manual suggests that playing a Hi8 tape should result in a Digital Video(DV) signal going into your Mac. iMovie 09 should then pick it up and import it. However, if I had a $ for every post that I've seen about people having problems getting Sony stuff to work with Macs, I'd be a rich man. [/QUOTE]

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