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How to import a DVD-R from a sony handy cam to macbook pro

Im going through some old home footage we took on a Sony handycam and I am wondering if its possible to import the videos onto my Macbook Pro as a copy on my laptop. I managed to watch the videos the first time I plugged it in and i managed to import the photos into the photos app but now when I try to view the videos it takes me to photos app and says there is no photos (obviously because they are videos). On my preferences I have it set to 'Open DVD player' for move DVD's but it no longer opens. The videos are on mini disks that are mainly DVD-R and DVD-RW. My DVD player reads them but I cant find any option to copy them onto my laptop and wont open the videos on photos, it just plays them on the DVD player app that pops up. I mainly just want a copy of the videos so we don't have to plug our handycam in every time we want to watch them.

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.2

Posted on Feb 12, 2021 6:23 AM

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Posted on Feb 27, 2021 9:07 PM

It appears that you are using your handy cam as an optical drive to play the mini DVDs. Correct? Does a DVD icon appear on your desktop when you plug in the handy cam? If so, click on the icon to open its library contents. You will see a VIDEO_TS folder. Open that and copy-drag to your desktop all of the files that have a VOB extension. These are the files that contain the movies on the DVD including audio. Then convert the files to Mp4/AAC with the free download, Handbrake. Once the are converted you can play them in iMovie and anywhere else that you want.


You can get Handbrake here:


https://handbrake.fr/


A simple way to do it is to open Handbrake and do a File/Open Source. Navigate to your video and choose it as the source from the resulting screen. Then do File/Start Encoding. Wait a couple of minutes for the conversion to complete. Then save and import the converted clip into iMovie.


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Feb 27, 2021 9:07 PM in response to kayleighhwx

It appears that you are using your handy cam as an optical drive to play the mini DVDs. Correct? Does a DVD icon appear on your desktop when you plug in the handy cam? If so, click on the icon to open its library contents. You will see a VIDEO_TS folder. Open that and copy-drag to your desktop all of the files that have a VOB extension. These are the files that contain the movies on the DVD including audio. Then convert the files to Mp4/AAC with the free download, Handbrake. Once the are converted you can play them in iMovie and anywhere else that you want.


You can get Handbrake here:


https://handbrake.fr/


A simple way to do it is to open Handbrake and do a File/Open Source. Navigate to your video and choose it as the source from the resulting screen. Then do File/Start Encoding. Wait a couple of minutes for the conversion to complete. Then save and import the converted clip into iMovie.


-- Rich







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