Help with Sony Handycam & Macbook

I am a new Mac user and desperately need some help in easy to understand language! I have a Sony Handycam DCR - DVD653E and want to know if there is any way to save the movies onto my Mac and if I am lucky do some editing?! Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I too have a sony dcr-trv19e and want to connect via firewire / ilink.
There are some forums which say this is possible, but I can't get my mac to see my sony.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I don't want to keep having to go back to my old windows computer to get the movies from my sony.
Anyone please help

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>
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>
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