I have a Sony dcr-dvd403 with the mini dvd's and I want to transfer my movies onto my iMac and I dont know if it is safe to put the small disks in my superdrive. My concern is that the drive is vertical instead of horizontal and I don't want it to get stuck. If I can't put these in and there is no firewire for this camcorder how can I transfer my videos onto my iMac. If anyone can help I would appreciate it.
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using the mini dvd-r disks with imac
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No no no no
Never put a mini or business card CD/DVD into a slot load drive.
Find a friend with a tray load DVD and duplicate onto a fullsize
You may have additional issues, DVD camcorders are poor choices for computer editing.
Never put a mini or business card CD/DVD into a slot load drive.
Find a friend with a tray load DVD and duplicate onto a fullsize
You may have additional issues, DVD camcorders are poor choices for computer editing.
NEVER PUT OTHER THAN FULL-SIZE DISCS IN YOUR SLOT-LOADING DRIVE! You will pay for it. Get an external DVD drive [tray loading] or like Canada said, find a buddy.
No, no no.
Only the Nintendo Wii seems to have a slot-loading drive that can handle non-standard discs, any slot-loading Mac will cough, splutter and eventually die a horrible death if you feed in an 8cm disc - doesn't matter if it's vertical or horizontal a slot-loader is a big no-no for 8cm discs.
If you need to watch the movies you should use an external, tray-loading DVD player.
You'll also run into problems because the format used for DVD-based camcorders is not designed to be easily edited, if you want good quality, editable footage you should use a miniDV based camera.
As mentioned above you'll need an external tray loading optical drive if you want to use mini discs on any slot loading Mac. You might get away with in on an older iMac.
EDIT: What the man down under said.
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No. Never put a mini disk in a slot-loading drive. Period.
As for external Hard Drives, they don't accept CD's of any shape or size.
EDIT: Wow, beaten twice!
Slight caveat...
The old 'gumdrop' iMac G3s would take mini discs. Not odd-shaped ones, but it would take 8 cm round discs.
Unfortunately, this is the exception. The vast majority of slot-load drives do, indeed, fail miserably when you put in small or odd-shaped discs.
I honestly don't know why manufacturers stopped supporting it.
The old 'gumdrop' iMac G3s would take mini discs. Not odd-shaped ones, but it would take 8 cm round discs.
Unfortunately, this is the exception. The vast majority of slot-load drives do, indeed, fail miserably when you put in small or odd-shaped discs.
I honestly don't know why manufacturers stopped supporting it.
Cause until the advent of MiniDVD camcorders, the small and odd-shaped discs were a general novelty and all-CD-ROM/R drives could take them, as almost 100% were tray loaders or carrier loaders.
I remember about 10 years ago this sales guy coming to my office with the next big thing business card CDs. Dumbest. Thing. Ever. I am pretty sure he sold only a handful of people on it, and none of my designer friends and acquaintances ever speced them [I knew and knew of around 150 designers in my town].
No one really used them, so there was pretty much no demand for drives that could support them as slot-loaders became the rage.
I did have a designer applicant hand me one as his business card once in a job interview. He became CheeseBall#1 at that point. [FYI I am a designer]
FWIW