How to get your Sony Handycam DCR-SR40 to work on OSX:
When you purchase the DCR-SR40 Sony Handycam, it has a link in the instruction book on where to go to purchase software to be able to use the camera with OSX. It is NOT free, and second of all, the software is absolutely horrible.
Do NOT for one second think that you can use firewire with this camera either. Nope. Also, do not assume that this camera will work with iMovie or iDVD, because it won't. Why? Well, first of all it's USB, (OSX needs firewire with Digital Video Cameras, even HDD based ones)
It won't work, it won't work, it won't work. Don't buy the crappy software suggested in the manual.
The problem is, the video that is stored on the camera is in Mpeg-2. Well. That sucks.
Steps to get it to work:
1. Plug the Camera's dock into the Mac.
2. Plug the Camera's dock into the electricty.
3. Record something
4. Plug the camera into the dock.
5. Turn the camera on, and put it in VCR mode (the …