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Getting Sony TRV-22 Cams Working w/ G5s?

Posted by Cliff on from the solving-the-problems dept.

Phil wants to take a bite out of this issue: "I'm having a time trying to get my Sony handycam to work with my Mac G5. Sony provides software for all Windows environments, and a USB driver and 'shim' program for Mac OS, but not Mac OS X. The Mac documentation says to hook a camera into the Firewire port, no software needed. So is there a device that will allow me to go from USB to Firewire, or do I have to spend a lot of money on an OS 9 video capture program? I can't seem to find an answer anywhere I look, and was hoping Slashdot readers could help me out, because I know I'm not alone with this problem. Thanks."

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  1. Re:Use the FireWire port by jo_ham · · Score: 4, Funny

    LANC!

    Fuck me running, I haven't used LANC since you had to stoke the camera's boiler and build up steam before you could use it.

  2. Re:TRV-19 as well by AKnightCowboy · · Score: 5, Funny
    Any way to have this work under Panther? I only have the USB cable that came with it, and would prefer not to get the firewire cable.

    Sadly this is one of the areas where Macs far fall behind PCs running Windows. Getting digital video editing going on a Mac is one of the hardest feats you'll ever encounter next to game playing. I'd sell the G5 and pick up a nice Alienware box if I were you. I would be willing to take the G5 off your hands since I'm such a sucker for hard luck cases... how about $1000 for the whole thing out the door and we'll call it even?

  3. Re:TRV-19 as well by FredFnord · · Score: 3, Funny

    There's this new craze sweeping the nation... it's called 'joking'.

    -fred

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  4. Re:Doesn't it come with a Firewire/i.Link port? by fean · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, silly Sony, not using "FireWire", even though Apple wasn't letting anyone use that name, and instead everyone had to call it IEEE 1394... sheesh, I can't believe sony decided to call it something completely different so they didn't get sued...

  5. Get the cable! by ch3 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Gee, all this fuss for a stupid cable...
    Now that's end user support at its best. Couldn't you just walk to your local apple store/eletronic store/whatever photograph store and ask how to plug your DV cam on your G5? Any vendor with an IQ slightly above a donkey would have told you to get a 20$ firewire cable.