Mac Forum / General / Hardware / July 2008

Hi *,

I am newbie as far as camcorders are concerned. Right now I sit in front
of a Sony DCR-VX1000E (miniDV-based) which is connected to my MacBook
via Firewire.

What I want is to record the Sony's video/audio signal directly to my
MacBook's harddisk instead of the miniDV cassette.

So I installed iMovie (6.0.1), created a new project (tried "DV" and
"MPEG-4") and hit the "Import" button. Recording started an all seemed
to work fine until after about 3-4 minutes recording suddenly stopped.

So now I have a 3-4 minutes clip in iMovie which is fine ... but
nevertheless only 3-4 minutes long. What I want one clip with 45-60
minutes without having to use the miniDV.

I have searched discussions.apple.com and this seems a known problem.
But actually I have not found any workarounds or other hints.

Any tips?
TIA

HJ