Etting video off a sony dvd handycam

I've got a sony dvd handycam (dcr-dvd602e) and want to get the video into imovie. Problem is that it records to mini dvd ( wont work in macbook) it doesnt have a firewire connection, and it records to mpeg2. Did a course on imovies with a jvc camcorder and was sweet. ant ideas on what i need to do ( or do I buy a new camcorder ( got the sony because of its cheapish waterproof housing)

I've got a sony dvd handycam (dcr-dvd602e) and want to get the video into imovie.
If tech specs data I looked at are correct, this is an analog only playback unit -- i.e., not only no FireWire connector but no USB either. If so, then you would need another device to act as an analog to digital converter for you. This could be in the form of a dedicated external DAC (Digital-Analog Converter) or another device such as a camcorder or TV tuner with a "Pass Through" option to convert your analog signals to digital and pass them through to your MacBook. If you are lucky, you might have a friend who could loan you such a device (as Winston frequently puts it, for the price of a few pints of your favorite brew).

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you've done your research on this board about DVDcorders, so you do know, the iApps don't support such devices ... you miss the convenience of simply plug-in/hit import/done... and some others...
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convert from dvd (please use the forum search for that popular issue), or, as you wrote, a playback-analoge-digital conversion...
the loss in pic quality happens while playback a dvd...- you record in a codec called mpeg2, which is a very, very effective compressor...- a standard iM project of 2h=~26GB gets compressed with mpeg2 to fit onto a 4.7Gb single-layer dvd-r...
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ad 2) iMovie doesn't support the import via usb2.- when you're lucky, you get some Sony-made app with that device which allows to remotely control the corder via usb2 to force it to playback/stream the video to the Mac.. HardDrivecorders behave like some ordinary harddrive, easy to drag'n drop file from them to the Mac.. but a DVDcorder? even, when you hit manually "play"... how should your Mac know what to do with that stream of data coming via usb??
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