Can recorded video be played back on a Mac computer?
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Yes. Video can be played back on all typical video players on Mac or PC. the videos are standard video files.
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Yes! You need to purchase Blue Iris ($50) for Windows or Evocam ($30) for Mac to record to your computer. Both are very good with numerous triggering options: motion, sound, time and date, remote request, or manually. You can specify the folder to which the video clips will be written. If you have DropBox, you can dump the videos in your DropBox folder so that they are sent to the cloud and become available to all your portable devices.
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As long as your computer can play back MP4 files (which all modern Macs in the past 5 years usually can) you can use these on a Macintosh computer.
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Play memories home does not seem to support MAC OS. Check with Sony tech support. Otherwise, connect the camcorder as a storage device, copy and paste your video file. Third option, import using a third party video editor. Check if Sony Vega Movie Maker or Cyberlink Power Director would work.
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I think so, I downloaded video to my PC, so I am pretty sure you can do the same thing to Mac
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I have a Mac Mini and I'm able to import the videos without problem. Besides, the software will reside in the SD card, not your Mac
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Yes, it can. But you cannot record it on a mac or even inside the flash card that you put inside the camera, even if the manual says you can. You can just watch the videos and setup the camera perfectly.
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I am not sure if you can pass the video directly though the iMac via display port, but I know you can download the video from the SD card and play it though any number of video players on the iMac. I would suggest VLC or MPlayer as good Mac video players that will handle many different formats.
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Yes, the software will give you an option for a destination for the captured videos. Just make sure that the drive is hooked up when you run the software and select that drive as a destination. Depending on the speed of the connection (USB/FireWire/Thunderbolt), it may take from a little to a lot longer than to do it to your local HD. If that turns out to be very slow, and you want to do a lot of converting at one time, another option is just to save one video to your Mac's drive, and then move it to the external HD while you're converting the next movie.
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Should work fine on mac and I believe that you can play .mov files through it. On my pc I have to convert the file from .mov to mp4 or other playable list. Downloaded software and have no issues.
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It depends on your computer. If you have a Mac then the answer is yes. You can use the included Quicktime Player or iMovie as well as GarageBand. It also works with the built-in dictation in Mac OS X 10.8 or later.If you have a PC, then you would need to purchase an application that records via USB.
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yes, you can, there is an 8Gb SD card with everyting needed for the dashcam on it.You even can watch the avi files on the mac, but not the gps and other info (i.e. time). Also for firmware updates you wil need a Windows computer.
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Download Media-browser for Mac and try. Streaming online is most probably not possible, you can show it on TV/Projectors etc. Does not show on the computer screen while recording and so I think that streaming will not be possible. Someone can suggest a software which can do it.
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Thanks B. Wickens!I've continued my research and it turns out the problem is not the brand of the camera but the AVCHD codec itself. Most video editing applications don't support it yet. So indeed you can copy the files to your hard drive in a Mac but you need a program that can read them.Turns out the latest Final Cut Pro does indeed support AVCHD and also the iMovie '08 (not '06).My favorite recoding application is VisualHub but I haven't been able to determine yet if it will read AVCHD and convert it to something else.
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only if you have your own software that will do that. It does not come with what is in this box. We separately downloaded the suggested program, but still have not figured out how to save the videos the kids make to view on our Mac system, let alone add sound to them. Very disappointed.
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Would know, never used it on a Mac. It's a good device for capturing low quality composite video.
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you could do that but the card doesn't compress the video so software view on your computer has no delay atleast on a mac should be the same on a pc