Aluminium macbook to sony pc5e (dv video camera) connectivity

Hi, hope someone may be able to help. I have an old sony pc5e mini dv video camera and would like to connect it to my aluminium mac to download some content. Is this compatible and if so, what would I need in terms of cables and software etc. I would assume that unless a firewire input is available then it won't work? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks very much.

I had similar problem. Bought new HDR-HC9 camera. Took tape from older mini dv camera, and recorded some test footage. Created new imovie project, and the portion of the tape recorded in hi def comes over fine, the portion of the tape recorded in standard (on the old camcorder) all I saw was the blue screen.
I also tried playing and importing some tapes that were recorded entirely on the old camera (no mix of hi def and standard on the same tape) and had the same result: iMovie saw camera, would control rev and play, video would play on camera but iMovie has blue screen.
I tried the iLink setting from the camera playback menu (HD->DV conversion) with no luck. I made sure my iMovie project was appropriate for the recorded mode (DV widescreen) with no luck. Then I happened on the solution. Go to the camera settings in video camera mode, change the recording mode from Hi Def to standard DV. At this point all the tapes recorded in standard mode (DV widescreen) from the old camera can be imported into iMovie6 just fine. I know this sounds weird, since the record mode should not effect playback (?) but it works none the less.
I have not yet experimented with importing hiDef footage with camera in standard record mode, but I expect that if there are problems, that making sure the record mode on the camera is synced with the type of footage you are playing into iMovie is the solution.
Hope this helps.

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