iChat - How to play and edit Sony DCR video on Mac OS X? BruceeL - Mon Jan 24, 2011 11:24 pm Post subject: How to play and edit Sony DCR video on Mac OS X?
As is known to all, brand Sony DCR SD series outshine others. However the question how to play or edit Sony DCR Video on Mac OS X frequently occurs. Faced with the dilemma, Mac users would be benefit from the following information to enjoy their Sony videos.
Sony DCR series cams are mostly Standard Definition Models. Most popular models are as the following.
DCR-SX40 DCR-SR87 DCR-SR87E DCR-HC52 DCR-SR47 DCR-DVD850 DCR-SR47E DCR-SR88 DCR-SR68 DCR-SX60 DCR-SR220E DCR-SX41/R DCR-SR47 DCR-SR67(DV) DCR-SR46E DCR-SX41/L DCR-SX41 DCR-DVD710E DCR-SX60E DCR-SR220 DCR-SR45 DCR-DVD610E DCR-SX40E DCR-SR47/L DCR-SX44 DCR-DVD650 DCR-SR85E DCR-SR47/R DCR-SX40/L DCR-HC54E DCR-SR65E DCR-SX40 DCR-SX40/R DCR-HC52E DCR-SR45EMiniDV DCR-SX40/L DCR-SX83 DCR-DVD650
The codec formats of these Sony SDR videos are mainly MPEG-2. Most of output formats of DCR-SR series are DV video, while the output of DCR-DVD are DVD videos. If you want to import these SD videos on your Mac for sharing, the first thing to do is to connect your cam to Mac and then import Sony DCR video to Mac.
But when you would like to play or edit Sony videos on Mac, Problems may confuse you when importing videos to QuickTime, iMovie, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro and other applications .Sony videos can’t be played or edited on Mac OS X directly. If you would like to extract video from Sony DCR camcorders, the best solution is to apply the program Sony DCR Video Converter for Mac to convert Sony DRC Video formats to mp4 or mov on Mac. Then you can play and edit your Sony videos on Mac OS X successfully.
How to convert Sony DCR Video to Mac? Here is a step by step guide:
Step 1: Add sony DCR video files into Video Converter for Mac
Step 2: Select the optimized output format
Output format: Apple Devices, Apple Software, Game Console, Common Video Formats, etc.
Step 3: Start conversion
With this Mac Video Converter, you can also edit videos by trimming, cropping, rotating and adding special effects before conversion. Click Edit from main menu and select editing functionalities.
