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Using your Sony Photographic camera with a Macintosh Computer

You can practise amazing things with a Sony digital photographic camera or camcorder and an Apple® Macintosh® computer, such as creating show stopping slide-shows and movies; sharing images; and teaching 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 computer. 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 Computer yous tin can do the post-obit:

iPhoto

With the iPhoto software yous can easily import, browse and edit photos. You tin share your pictures via Facebook and through email, as well as brand engaging slideshows. For all the features available with the iPhoto software, visit the Apple® website.

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

Employ the following procedure to import your photos into the iPhoto software:

Note: Depending on the connectedness type and capabilities of your camera, the transfer procedure may vary. Refer to the operating instructions of your camera for detailed information.

  1. Turn on the photographic camera.
  2. Connect the camera to the computer using the supplied USB cable.
  3. Set up the camera to Mass Storage or USB Style.
  4. The iPhoto software will start automatically.

    Note: If the iPhoto software does not automatically start, open the iPhoto software manually past using the Dock or you can utilize the Finder Bar, Go and then select Applications.

  5. Thumbnail images of the photos saved on the retention card of the camera brandish in the iPhoto screen.
  6. Cull the method y'all desire to use for importing.
    • To but import some of the pictures, click to select the thumbnail images you want so click the Import Selected push.
    • 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 retention card or internal memory in the camera after transfer.
    • Choosing Go along Photos will keep a copy of the pictures y'all transferred to the estimator on the memory carte or internal retentivity in the photographic camera.

For detailed information about editing and sharing photos, every bit well equally other features, refer to the assist file in the iPhoto software.

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iMovie

With the iMovie software you can easily import, browse, and edit your video. You can create film trailers from various templates, edit audio and add special effects. With the new People Finder feature, iMovie makes it easy to discover video that includes sure people. For all the features available with the iMovie software, visit the Apple tree website.

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

Employ the following process to import video into the iMovie software:

Of import: The iMovie software does not support AVCHD 60p video. To be able to edit your Hard disk drive video in iMovie, we suggest you set your camcorder to record in AVCHD 60i or AVCHD 24i or MP4. If y'all've already recorded videos in 60p, yous can transfer the video straight to the hard drive of your Mac, and then burn information technology to a disc to be viewed on a dissimilar computer or idiot box. Also, you tin convert AVCHD 60p video to MP4 format using Media Converter software.

Notes:

  • Depending on the connection type and capabilities of your camera, the transfer process may vary. Refer to the operating instructions of your camera for detailed information.
  • To import standard-definition video, iMovie '07 or newer is required. However, to import high-definition video such as AVCHD, iMovie '08 or newer is required.
  1. Turn on the camera.
  2. Connect the camera to the estimator using the supplied USB cable.
  3. Gear up the camera to Mass Storage or USB Style.

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

  4. Open the iMovie software from the Dock or on the Finder Bar, cull Become and and then Applications. iMovie will be listed as an icon in the Applications window.
  5. In the iMovie window, click File and then Import from Camera.

  7. Choose the method y'all want to use for importing:
    • To import all the videos:
      1. At the lower-left corner, click Automated.
      2. At the lower-correct corner, click the Import All button.

    • To import only specific videos:
      1. At the lower-left corner, click Manual.
      2. Under the displayed thumbnails, click to bank check the boxes of the video you want to import and so click the Import Checked button.

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

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

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

For detailed information about editing videos, as well as other features, refer to the help files in the iMovie software.

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Transfer photos and video directly to your estimator hard drive

Instead of using the iPhoto or iMovie software, you tin can transfer photos and video direct to the hard drive of your Mac computer using the post-obit procedure.

Notes:

  • Depending on the connection type and capabilities of your camera, the transfer process may vary. Refer to the operating instructions of your photographic camera for detailed information.
  • For AVCHD video, a Macintosh computer with an Intel® Core Duo processor or better is required.
  1. Turn on the camera.
  2. Connect the photographic camera to the computer using the supplied USB cable.
  3. Prepare the camera to Mass Storage or USB Manner.

    Annotation: Later the reckoner recognizes the connection, it will list the camera bulldoze or drives as NO Name or UNTITLED on the computer desktop.

  4. Click the NO Proper name or UNTITLED icon on the reckoner desktop.
  5. Locate the files you desire to transfer.

    For photos:

    1. Click the DCIM folder.

    For AVCHD video:

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

    For Standard Definition (SD) video:

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

  6. On the keyboard, press and agree the Shift key.
  7. While holding the Shift key, click to select the photos or video clip files you want to transfer.
  8. Release the Shift primal.
  9. On the keyboard, press the Control and C keys to copy the files.
  10. Open the folder or directory on the computer where yous desire to copy the files.
  11. On the keyboard, press the Command and 5 keys to paste the files to the desired location.

Later following the steps above, the photos and video from your camera are copied to the hard bulldoze of the computer and tin can be played with a compatible media player.

Notes:

  • The Apple Macintosh Web site has an MPEG-2 Playback component for Quicktime 6 or 7 available for purchase.
  • For the Apple Mac Bone® X operating organisation, MPEG editing software (Capty MPEG Edit EX) is available for purchase from the PIXELA Spider web site. This application is for standard-definition video only.

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