DCR SR100 HD Video camera

I am a new Mac user and certainly have been put off by the lack of support received today from the support techo who offered no more help than to read the compatible cameras list that I'd already skimmed through. It seems my camera is not compatible with Final Cut Pro 2 (aka 6) and tech support could not suggest any way of making it compatible short of blaming Sony. My camera is compatible with PCs so clearly the great editing system of Final Cut Pro 2 (aka 6) is not all it's cracked up to be. We bought this system to edit from our latest camera a Sony EX1. Tech support suggests this camera is also not compatible. I would appreciate any suggestions from this forum as tech support cannot assist.

Hi Sharon,
welcome to FCP forum,
I will avoid comments on the compatibility issue you encountered, which are extremely frequent with HDD consumer cameras and get straight to constructive answers.
You can either try iMovie or use a small, free and easy application to convert your clips into a Final Cut Pro friendly format (i.e. QT or even DV), it is called MPEGstreamclip and [here is a link|http://www.squared5.com> to download it.
Tech support was wrong in telling you that the EX1 is not compatible with FCP.
You will just need FCP 6.0.2 :
http://www.apple.com/support/releasenotes/en/FinalCut_Pro_6.0rn/
and install a transfer software and driver from Sony's site:
http://www.sony.co.uk/biz/view/ShowContent.action?logicalname=RME%20PRO%20Servic e%20SxS%20Driver
http://www.sony.co.uk/biz/view/ShowContent.action?contentId=1166605189229&parent FlexibleHub=1166605189820&site=bizenGB
G.

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