HDR-SR11 HD Videos importing

I connect my hdr-sr11 video camera through the usb. My mac recognizes the pictures and standard video I have recorded and taken but the HD video is not recognized.
What do I do to see these HD videos?

How do you know if you have an intel based mac and if you don’t have an intel based mac are there any other options of getting your HD video from the Sony HDR-SR11 camcorder onto your mac?
I see a lot of posts on mac users having trouble getting their HD videos off this Sony camera which came highly recommended by mac world. I disappointed, not very mac friendly.
Basically I need to get these HD videos off the camera and onto the mac to then import them into a dvd project I’m working on in iDVD. Is there any hope or did I just by an expensive HD camera that is really meant for PC users?

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Hello! Welcome to Sony Online Support. My name is Angie.
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GLAD to see you
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same problem
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es
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hmmm
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r u saying that PMH does not work w/Windows 7!!!
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you s
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think Sony would be so stupid to eliminate themselves from the market like that??
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'PMH' is a compatible software for Windows 7.
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So you agree that PMH can not work on my computer as well???
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so make it work
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Customer:
do you have a supervisor
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Customer:
check the web it is not the first time this issue has risen
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Customer:
are you trained

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