Greetings technical wizards (of which I am not one),

I have several hours of footage shot in HD mode with a SONY HVR-Z1U. I dont have the camera, just the tapes, and I need to get them captured onto my MAC OS X where I can edit them with FCE 4. I realize that I won't be able to edit in HD -- and I'm fine with DV for the purposes of this project -- but how can I go about getting the HD footage on the tapes converted to DV so that I can capture it into FCE? Is there a deck that will play HDV and convert it to DV as its being captured by FCE? I don't have money for upgrading software or anything like that. Just enough for a tape deck rental, so I'll take your best MacGyver suggestions.

Your mastery of technology is greatly appreciated. Please help.