As is known to all, brand Sony DCR SD series outshine others. However the question how to play or edit Sony DCR Video on Mac OS X frequently occurs. Faced with the dilemma, Mac users would be benefit from the following information to enjoy their Sony videos.

Sony HDR series cams are Standard Definition Models .Most popular models are as the following.

The codec formats of these Sony SDR videos are mainly MPEG-2. Most of the output formats of DCR-SR series are DV video, while the output of DCR-DVD are DVD videos. If you want to import these SD videos on your Mac for sharing, the first thing to do is to connect your cam to Mac and you can refer to this article about How to import Sony DCR video to Mac.

But when you would like to play or edit Sony videos on your Mac, Problems may confuse you when importing videos to QuickTime, iMovie, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro and other applications .Sony videos can’t be played or edited on Mac OS X directly. If you would like to play and edit them on Mac, the best solution is to apply the programme Sony DCR Video Converter for Mac to convert Sony video formats to mp4 or mov on Mac. Then you can play and edit your Sony videos on Mac OS X successfully.

Sony DCR Video Converter for Mac is a good SD video converter for Mac to convert standard definition videos (AVI, MP4, MPG, WMV, MOV, DV etc), which can also extract and convert audio track from your video files as WAV, MKA, OGG, 3GP, Mp3 and M4A.

As to Sony DVD videos, you can refer to this guide about how to put Sony DCR dvd into imovie to edit them.

By the way, all the output Sony camera video can be played on iPod, iPhone (iPhone OS 3.0), PSP, PSP Go, Apple TV, Nokia and other mobile players.

Moreover, with this Sony Video Converter for Mac, you can also trim, crop, effect Sony camera videos on Mac. Here is a step by step guide about editing Sony video on Mac OS X.