Connecting MacBook to Samsung Mini DV Camcorder

I have a MacBook and I would like to get my videos from a samsung mini DV camcorder. How can I do this?  I don't have firewire port on MacBook.  I tried buying a firewire with USB end and it does not work.  Please help.

Sadly you need a MacBook that has Firewire.  USB 2 camcorders exist, but all of them compress video before sending it via USB.  The newest MacBook Airs and Pros are compatible with Thunderbolt which can be converted to USB 3 which doesn't have the capacity of bandwidth issue, but can interfere with WiFi.   Firewire and Thunderbolt are far better standards to deal with.  
And there is no way to directly convert a Firewire to USB signal or vice versa.
If your mini-DV camcorder records to media directly on the Camcorder such as mini-DV discs. http://www.macsales.com/ offers tray loading DVD drives that may be able to read those discs.

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