Find great deals on eBay for sony hdr-sr11 and sony hdr-sr12. Shop with confidence. Apr 27, 2008 How do i get video from my sony handycam (hdr-sr11) to my mac? I dont have a problem getting pictures. I just use image capture. However; i can not seem to get videos onto my mac. Sony did not supply software that works with mac (pisses me off) so im screwed there. Im doing this so i can save videos and pictures to an external hdd.
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If you want to capture top-notch HD video and stellar audio, Sony's HDR-SR11 High Definition Handycam ($1,099.99 direct), with a built-in 60GB hard drive, will certainly deliver. Sony puts the icing on the cake with a dead-simple interface and extra goodies like Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound recording, a touch-screen LCD, face detection, and HDMI Consumer Electronic Control compatibility (more on that later). There's a slight downside, though. Your $1,100 will buy you a fantastic camcorder, that's all you get: The HDR-SR11 doesn't include the video-editing and Blu-ray–burning software that competing camcorders like JVC's Everio GZ-HD10 do.
The HDR-SR11's build is similar to that of the Canon Vixia HV30 , featuring an oval body with a rectangular grip on the right-hand side, which feels sturdy in your hand. The camcorder measures 3.4 by 3 by 5.5 inches (HWD) and weighs 1.4 pounds. It's not the lightest camcorder in our current crop (that distinction goes to the 1-pound Samsung SC-HMX20C ), but the HDR-SR11's ergonomics make it more comfortable to hold. The controls are also well positioned in relation to the camera's grip, along the back, easily accessible with your index finger and thumb. The 3.2-inch touch-screen LCD flips out of the left-hand side and has a few physical buttons on its frame for zooming and recording. (Several of the controls are repeated on the camera's right-hand side, so you can shoot with whichever hand feels more comfortable.)
Sony's user interface is a breeze to use. Touch-screen navigation is accurate and responsive, thanks to the camcorder's big, on-screen buttons. Menu options are distributed among five pages, with no more than four options appearing on any one page. The LCD is one of the roomier ones among the camcorders we've tested—its 3.2 inches feel luxurious compared with the 2.7 inches you get on, say, the Panasonic HDC-SD9-8GB . The HDR-SR11 does have an optical viewfinder, but given the sharp, 912K-pixel LCD, you probably won't need it.
The HDR-SR11 captures video at 1,920-by-1,080 interlaced at 60 frames per second, a high-enough resolution to please most people. But if you want more flexibility, Canon's Vixia HV30 does a few more tricks: It, too, records at 1,920 by 1,080, but it lets you choose either 60 fps interlaced, 30 fps progressive (good for extracting still images), or 24 fps progressive (to simulate motion recorded by film). The HDR-SR11 does feature a fun Nightshot mode, which makes video look as if it's been shot with night-vision goggles. The camcorder captures video and still images with a CMOS sensor, more or less guaranteeing higher quality than 3CCD chip–equipped models. The lens has a 12X zoom, letting you get a little closer to the action than you would with the 10X lenses offered by most of the competition at this price level. Video is saved on the HDR-SR11's roomy 60GB hard drive, which, according to Sony, can hold approximately 7 hours of HD video recorded at the camera's highest setting. The 10.2-megapixel still images are saved to a Memory Stick PRO card.
Video is recorded in the AVCHD format—a bit of pain for Windows users. Windows Movie Maker, the video software that comes with Vista, isn't compatible with AVCHD. PC users interested in this camcorder are going to have to budget for some additional video-editing software or opt for JVC's Everio GZ-HD10 or Samsung's SC-HMX20C, both of which include dedicated video-editing and Blu-ray–burning software. Mac users can simply use iMovie '08. The HDR-SR11 connects to your computer via USB 2.0 and transfers video in real time.
Image quality is excellent; when compared with video produced by the JVC Everio GZ-HD10 and comparably priced Samsung and Canon camcorders, the HDR-SR11's was the only output that showed no sign of purple fringing. Footage of faces, outdoor city scenes, and naturally lit rooms that I ran by an X-Rite Color Checker was bright and compromised very little detail in dark areas. Color was dazzling, too. The Panasonic SD9-8GB had trouble with automatic white balance when lighting quickly changed (for instance, when moving from indoors to outdoors while recording); it stumbled on adjusting to the outdoor lighting and cast a blue color over the video (though once turned off and on, it was able to adjust the colors to the outdoor light). Simple shooting situations like this failed to stump the Sony HDR-SR11. Face Detection, available while shooting still images or video, worked like a charm. It presents a blue box around subjects' faces on the LCD and adjusts exposure and focus for optimal quality. Samsung's SC-HMX20C offers this feature, too, but Sony's focusing was faster, and images were better exposed and sharper.
The HDR-SR11 not only does a fantastic job of recording stereo audio, it's also one of the few cameras in its price range to record in Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. Subjects in focus tended to cut through the background noise, and recordings of songs by the Red Hot Chili Peppers sounded well rounded when played back. Sony also includes an accessory port for adding a proprietary boom microphone or a wireless microphone. (What's more, there's a place to add a more powerful flash.)
Sony also includes support for HDMI Consumer Electronic Control (CEC), a relatively new user-interface technology that we recognized in our Technical Excellence awards. If you connect the camcorder via HDMI to an HDTV that also supports CEC, the TV can actually take control of the camcorder, and you can operate the camera using the HDTV's remote. I connected the HDR-SR11 to a Samsung LN52A750 set, which supports CEC, and was able to navigate all of the camcorder's menus and power on and off both devices simultaneously.
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If you've got the cash, the $1,099.99 Sony HDR-SR11 60GB High Definition Handycam Camcorder is a winner when it comes to ease of use and image quality. While it doesn't include the robust software package of the aforementioned JVC or Samsung cameras, it's the other extras—like a large built-in hard drive, touch-screen controls, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, and support for HDMI CEC technology—that make it stand out from the pack to earn our Editors' Choice.
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