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Using your Sony Photographic camera with a Macintosh Estimator

You can do amazing things with a Sony digital camera or camcorder and an Apple® Macintosh® estimator, such as creating bear witness stopping slide-shows and movies; sharing images; and didactics the computer to recognize your friends in your photos. Using the USB cable supplied with your camera yous can simply move photos and video to your Mac reckoner. Also, the iPhoto® and iMovie® software are powerful applications available for Mac computers that allow you to import and edit images and video.

Using your Sony Camera and Macintosh Calculator yous can do the following:

  • Transfer images using iPhoto
  • Transfer video clips using iMovie
  • Transfer Directly to the Estimator Hard Drive
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 iPhoto

With the iPhoto software you can easily import, browse and edit photos. Y'all can share your pictures via Facebook and through email, as well as make engaging slideshows. For all the features available with the iPhoto software, visit the Apple tree® website.

Note: Not all features are bachelor in all versions of the iPhoto software.

Use the post-obit process to import your photos into the iPhoto software:

Note: Depending on the connexion blazon and capabilities of your camera, the transfer process may vary. Refer to the operating instructions of your camera for detailed data.

  1. Turn on the camera.
  2. Connect the camera to the figurer using the supplied USB cable.
  3. Set the camera to Mass Storage or USB Mode.
  4. The iPhoto software will get-go automatically.

    Note: If the iPhoto software does non automatically start, open the iPhoto software manually past using the Dock or you can use the Finder Bar, Go so select Applications.

  5. Thumbnail images of the photos saved on the memory card of the camera display in the iPhoto screen.
  6. Choose the method you want to use for importing.
    • To only import some of the pictures, click to select the thumbnail images y'all want and then click the Import Selected button.
    • To import all the pictures, click the Import x Photos button.

  7. In the Delete Photos on Your Camera? window, click the desired selection.
    • Choosing Delete Photos erases all the pictures from the memory card or internal memory in the camera later on transfer.
    • Choosing Keep Photos will proceed a copy of the pictures y'all transferred to the figurer on the retentiveness card or internal memory in the camera.

For detailed information about editing and sharing photos, too as other features, refer to the aid file in the iPhoto software.

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 iMovie

With the iMovie software you can easily import, browse, and edit your video. You tin create movie trailers from various templates, edit audio and add special effects. With the new People Finder feature, iMovie makes it like shooting fish in a barrel to find video that includes certain people. For all the features available with the iMovie software, visit the Apple tree website.

Annotation: Not all features are available in all versions of the iMovie software.

Use the post-obit procedure to import video into the iMovie software:

Important: The iMovie software does not support AVCHD 60p video. To be able to edit your HD video in iMovie, we suggest yous set up your camcorder to record in AVCHD 60i or AVCHD 24i or MP4. If you've already recorded videos in 60p, you tin can transfer the video directly to the hard bulldoze of your Mac, and so fire it to a disc to be viewed on a different computer or television. Likewise, yous tin can catechumen AVCHD 60p video to MP4 format using Media Converter software.

Notes:

  • Depending on the connection blazon and capabilities of your camera, the transfer procedure may vary. Refer to the operating instructions of your camera for detailed information.
  • To import standard-definition video, iMovie '07 or newer is required. Nonetheless, to import high-definition video such as AVCHD, iMovie '08 or newer is required.
  1. Turn on the camera.
  2. Connect the photographic camera to the computer using the supplied USB cable.
  3. Set the camera to Mass Storage or USB Fashion.

    Note: If the iPhoto® software automatically starts, close it.

  4. Open up the iMovie software from the Dock or on the Finder Bar, choose Go and then Applications. iMovie volition exist listed as an icon in the Applications window.
  5. In the iMovie window, click File and then Import from Camera.

  7. Choose the method yous desire to utilize for importing:
    • To import all the videos:
      1. At the lower-left corner, click Automatic.
      2. At the lower-correct corner, click the Import All button.

    • To import only specific videos:
      1. At the lower-left corner, click Transmission.
      2. Nether the displayed thumbnails, click to check the boxes of the video you want to import and then click the Import Checked push button.

  8. Select the location to save the videos.
  9. In the Create New Result section, type a proper name for the videos.
  10. Click the OK button.

    Notation: The videos are copied to the computer. An Import consummate dialog box is displayed when the import is finished.

  11. In the Import complete dialog box, click the Import button.

For detailed information nigh editing videos, as well every bit other features, refer to the assistance files in the iMovie software.

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 Transfer photos and video directly to your computer hard drive

Instead of using the iPhoto or iMovie software, you tin transfer photos and video directly to the hard drive of your Mac estimator using the post-obit process.

Notes:

  • Depending on the connection type and capabilities of your camera, the transfer procedure may vary. Refer to the operating instructions of your camera for detailed data.
  • For AVCHD video, a Macintosh computer with an Intel® Cadre Duo processor or ameliorate is required.
  1. Turn on the camera.
  2. Connect the camera to the computer using the supplied USB cable.
  3. Set the camera to Mass Storage or USB Mode.

    Note: After the computer recognizes the connection, it will list the camera bulldoze or drives every bit NO NAME or UNTITLED on the computer desktop.

  4. Click the NO NAME or UNTITLED icon on the figurer desktop.
  5. Locate the files you want to transfer.

    For photos:

    1. Click the DCIM folder.

    For AVCHD video:

    1. Click the PRIVATE folder.
    2. Click the AVCHD binder.
    3. Click the BDMV folder.
    4. Clock the STREAM folder.

    For Standard Definition (SD) video:

    1. Click the MP_ROOT binder.
    2. Click the 101PNV01 folder.

  6. On the keyboard, press and hold the Shift fundamental.
  7. While belongings the Shift key, click to select the photos or video clip files yous want to transfer.
  8. Release the Shift key.
  9. On the keyboard, printing the Command and C keys to re-create the files.
  10. Open up the folder or directory on the computer where you desire to re-create the files.
  11. On the keyboard, printing the Command and V keys to paste the files to the desired location.

After following the steps above, the photos and video from your camera are copied to the hard drive of the calculator and tin can exist played with a compatible media thespian.

Notes:

  • The Apple Macintosh Spider web site has an MPEG-ii Playback component for Quicktime six or 7 available for purchase.
  • For the Apple Mac OS® X operating system, MPEG editing software (Capty MPEG Edit EX) is available for purchase from the PIXELA Web site. This awarding is for standard-definition video just.

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 FAQs & Troubleshooting

  • Import images into iPhoto or iMovie software.
  • AVCHD video is non recognized or cannot be transferred to a Macintosh estimator.
  • How to transfer pictures to a computer using a USB connection.
  • Error: Update has been aborted due to fault in procedure or The Firmware updater application may not be able to detect the continued device.
  • Are RAW prototype files compatible with Macintosh computers?
  • Videos are not being recognized and practise not import when using the iMovie software.
  • The iPhoto software does not recognize the Sony camera.

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