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Re: Sony HDR-UX1 to Mac connection?

I have that camera and I'm Mac only. So far I haven't needed to use any of my footage I've shot on the camera (just been shooting archival footage for now), so in the mean time, I just copy the footage off to a folder on my Mac while I wait for a way to work with it.

I've read it is possible to use the included Sony software on a PC or under Boot Camp, to convert the footage to MPEG-2, at which point you can bring it into the Mac. It's a slow, laborious process, but from what I've seen from the camera, it's worth it.

I suspect it will be a while before Apple has a direct solution, but I'm pretty sure we'll see a 3rd party solution soon.

Jeremy
Rivetal, Inc.


On Apr 12, 2007, at 6:13 PM, Ken G. Brown wrote:

At 5:00 PM -0700 4/12/07, Brad Ford wrote: 
On Apr 12, 2007, at 4:52 PM, Ken G. Brown wrote:

I've recently purchased a Sony HDR-UX1 and assumed I would be able to use it with my MacPro running 10.4.9. I am not having any luck whatsoever.
It appears that in HD mode, the camera stores the video onto the mini-dvd in AVCHD format which is apparently MPEG-4 AVC/H2.64.

If I hook the camera up to the Mac with the USB cable(no Firewire available), the camera shows up in the Finder, if I try to Finder copy the contents to the hard drive, I get a -50 error. If I try importing from iMovieHD, the file are greyed out and I cannot import anything. If I drag and drop onto iMovieHD, I get Quicktime errors.

If I set iMovieHD to camera mode, it says camera not attached up even tho the camera shows in the Finder. Clicking on the 'connection help' button finds it talking about Firewire but not usb connections.

So far nothing I've tried has worked at all.

Can anyone tell me what do I need to do in order to work with the HD videos from the HDR-UX1 on the Mac? 

We currently do not support AVCHD cameras on the Mac.

-Brad Ford
QuickTime Engineering


I appreciate the quick response.
Is there any plan to support them?
What would you say my options are? Try to return the camera?
Is there a list of supported HD cameras somewhere?
This stuff is all pretty new to me.

Thx,
Ken



Thx for any insight,
Ken
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