Sony handycam, how to load into idvd?

I recently switched over to mac. one problem i am
having is trying to edit my dvd's. I have a sony
handycam dvr dvd505 and cant load my movies into the
computer because it only has usb and no firewire. can
anyone help me out? thanks..
Jon,
I'm sorry, but your DVD based camera isn't a good fit for use on a Mac. If you finalize the discs in the camera you may be able to play them in your Mac and copy the MPG-2 compressed content to you Mac from the DVD.
To be able to then use your movies in iMovie and iDVD will require you transcode the MPG-2 compressed movies you have into DV video. When you create a DVD with iDVD the DV content will be reencoded to MPG-2. If this sounds less than ideal, that's because it is.
Several programs will do the conversion from MPG-2 for you: mpegstreamclip, Roxio's Toast and VisualHub are just three such programs.
F Shippey

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