Need to Connect Mac to DVD Recorder

[apiollie]

Hi All,
I'm trying to connect my MacBook Pro to a DVD Recorder. I have some files on the computer that were transferred from my digital video camera (home movies), but I have no way to connect the Mac to the recorder, which has RCA type connections. The mac has a Thunderbolt port, but the only adapter I have connects from that directly to the tv with an HDMI connection, which the DVD recorder does not have for input. Please help!!

Thanks!

 

[borgranta]

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[fhall1]

That connector is USB-C to RCA audio - what good will that do?

 

[Fishrrman]

It would help if you told us:
- which MacBook Pro you have (year made)
- what connection ports you have.

It seems to me most users want to go "the other way" these days.
That is... get videos OFF the DVD and "into" the Mac.

May I ask -why- you want to connect the Mac to a DVD recorder?

If you want to burn a DVD, seems to me the easiest way would be to use a Mac CD/DVD app (such as Toast) with an external USB CD/DVD writer. You can get USB/CD burners for about $25 (US) these days -- not much more than a connecting/conversion cable (perhaps even less).

For DVD creation, you might try "Burn" or "Simply Burns" (not sure if they'll work or not).
And again, there is "Toast" which should do the job.

 

[apiollie]

It would help if you told us:
- which MacBook Pro you have (year made)
- what connection ports you have.

It seems to me most users want to go "the other way" these days.
That is... get videos OFF the DVD and "into" the Mac.

May I ask -why- you want to connect the Mac to a DVD recorder?

If you want to burn a DVD, seems to me the easiest way would be to use a Mac CD/DVD app (such as Toast) with an external USB CD/DVD writer. You can get USB/CD burners for about $25 (US) these days -- not much more than a connecting/conversion cable (perhaps even less).

For DVD creation, you might try "Burn" or "Simply Burns" (not sure if they'll work or not).
And again, there is "Toast" which should do the job.

Hi,

Thanks for your reply!

I have a MacBook Pro mid 2012, 13 inch. It has a Thunderbolt port and 2 USB ports. It has a DVD drive, but when we tried to burn the DVD directly, for some reason, it did not recognize the disc as a writeable dvd, even though it was a DVD+RW.

We are trying to transfer home video footage from our camera to DVD. A bunch of our video clips on the camera seemed to fail to record properly, but when we copied from the SD card onto the laptop, the files were actually there and we could see them on the computer. We want to burn them onto the DVD that has the rest of the clips. We have a Panasonic DVD Recorder/vcr that does NOT have a USB port, only the RCA style inputs. We do have a connector that can go from the laptop's Thunderbolt port to our TV's HDMI port, but that does not help us with the DVD Recorder.

I hope that explains our issue better!

Thanks,
Arpi

 

[Fishrrman]

OP wrote:
"We want to burn them onto the DVD that has the rest of the clips."
and
"for some reason, it did not recognize the disc as a writeable dvd, even though it was a DVD+RW."

OK, here's where I think you're going wrong.
DON'T try to add to the DVD-RW.
Instead, use a fresh, blank DVD-R (NOT the "RW" kind).

The clips will end up on more than one DVD, but that's ok.

Give this a try, see if it works.