Moving video from small dvd discs into macbook

I have a Sony Handycam with the small non-standard discs. There is no firewire port on the handycam so I cannot transfer my video to my Mac. (only a/v and USB) No one can seem to help me. Help!

u can't insert small CD's into the mac optical drive. It only takes regular size CD's as you may know.
Your option - get an external CD/DVD rom - connect via USB port - and off you go. My external DVD ROM takes the smaller size cd's and works great.
Hope this helps

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