Driver for my camcorder

Hi, everybody.
I have a DCR-PC105 camcorder, and I haven't found the driver for mac, I've searched and I only found for Windows.
Would you help me, pleaseee!!!!

This camcorder shoould be plug and play on the mac. Just plug it into your firewire port. No need for a special driver.
Plug it in while iMovie is open and you should see it.
Message was edited by: AppleMan1958

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