How do I capture movies from a sony hdr-xr150 to my mac

The HDR-XR150 isn’t the lightest digital camcorder in Sony’s HDR series but it remains small enough for any person to hold the camcorder with ease. When the display isn’t extended, it can barely fit in a pocket or be placed in a small bag for easy travel. The 2.7-inch Clear Photo LCD display is quite flexible as it is rotatable up to 270 degrees so users can get the clearer view of the display in different viewing angles. Many features including spot metering and spot focus are easily accessible through the display’s touch panel. Playing back high-definition videos on this 230K display looks good.

Sony HDR series Camcorders are High Definition Models, which store video in AVCHD MTS/MPEG-2. As a kind of popular HD camcorder, Sony HDR series own several hot family members including Sony HDR-XR150, HDR-XR500V, HDR-CX110, HDR-CX150, HDR-FX7, etc. Sony HDR series Handycam is lightweight, recording in high definition with good video quality, easy to use.

Sony HDR Series has released for a rather long time, but for its comprehensive quality. It's still some users' most love and usually use it to record and need import it to Mac iMovie'11, FCPX for editing.

Owing to Sony HDR Handycam recording video in AVCHD MTS/MPEG, or miniDV, for Mac users, you cannot directly import these MTS, MPEG, miniDV video to Mac to edit with iMovie, FCP, etc.

If you want to convert and import Sony HDR video to Mac, how to do that?

Sony HDR Video Converter for Macis the best solution to tansfer Sony HDR video like AVCHD MTS, MPEG2, miniDV, etc to MOV, MP4, M4V, 3GP, H.264 for Mac. With this AVCHD Converter for Mac, you can easily convert camcorder video such as MTS, M2TS, TOD, MOD, MPEG, etc to MOV, MP4, AVI, 3GP, FLV, MPEG-4, MP3, etc for Mac, iMovie, Quicktime, iDVD, FCP, FCE, Adobe Premiere Pro, iPad, iPod, iPhone, Blackberry, Youtube, etc.

You can do as follows:

First:Import Sony HDR Video to Sony HDR AVCHD Converter for Mac

Click "Add File" to add your Sony HDR AVCHD MTS or MPEG-2 files to Mac AVCHD Converter after you launched it. You can upload several videos one time.

Then: Set Output Video Format for Mac

Click "Profile" to open the Profile drop-up list to select MOV, or MP4 as output video format for Mac OS, Quicktime, iMovie, FCP, FCE, etc.

Finally: Convert Sony HDR Video

Click "Start" button to convert Sony HDR video like AVCHD MTS/M2TS, MPEG-2, miniDV files to Mac. After conversion finished, you can enjoy converted Sony HDR video on Mac or edit these videos with iMovie, FCP, Adobe Premiere Pro, etc.

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