How to play and edit Sony DCR video on Mac OS X?
As is known to all, brand Sony DCR SD series outshine others. However the question how to play or edit Sony DCR Video on Mac OS X frequently occurs. Faced with the dilemma, Mac users would be benefit from the following information to enjoy their Sony videos.
Sony DCR series cams are mostly Standard Definition Models. Most popular models are as the following.
DCR-SX40 | DCR-SR87 | DCR-SR87E | DCR-HC52 |
DCR-SR47 | DCR-DVD850 | DCR-SR47E | DCR-SR88 |
DCR-SR68 | DCR-SX60 | DCR-SR220E | DCR-SX41/R |
DCR-SR47 | DCR-SR67(DV) | DCR-SR46E | DCR-SX41/L |
DCR-SX41 | DCR-DVD710E | DCR-SX60E | DCR-SR220 |
DCR-SR45 | DCR-DVD610E | DCR-SX40E | DCR-SR47/L |
DCR-SX44 | DCR-DVD650 | DCR-SR85E | DCR-SR47/R |
DCR-SX40/L | DCR-HC54E | DCR-SR65E | DCR-SX40 |
DCR-SX40/R | DCR-HC52E | DCR-SR45E | MiniDVDCR-SX40/L |
DCR-SX83 | DCR-DVD650 |
The codec formats of these Sony SDR videos are mainly MPEG-2. Most of output formats of DCR-SR series are DV video, while the output of DCR-DVD are DVD videos. If you want to import these SD videos on your Mac for sharing, the first thing to do is to connect your cam to Mac and then import Sony DCR video to Mac.
But when you would like to play or edit Sony videos on Mac, Problems may confuse you when importing videos to QuickTime, iMovie, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro and other applications .Sony videos can’t be played or edited on Mac OS X directly. If you would like to extract video from Sony DCR camcorders, the best solution is to apply the program Sony DCR Video Converter for Mac to convert Sony DRC Video formats to mp4 or mov on Mac. Then you can play and edit your Sony videos on Mac OS X successfully.
How to convert Sony DCR Video to Mac? Here is a step by step guide:
Step 1: Add sony DCR video files into Video Converter for Mac
Step 2: Select the optimized output format
Output format: Apple Devices, Apple Software, Game Console, Common Video Formats, etc.
Step 3: Start conversion
With this Mac Video Converter, you can also edit videos by trimming, cropping, rotating and adding special effects before conversion. Click Edit from main menu and select editing functionalities.