the dock is the plastic base that sony uses with alot of there previous models, i was not a big fan of the dock but in most cases you needed it to access the usb port, in order to upload your video, to a computer, this was the case on most tape models.
i am super impressed by the camera.
thanks for your post.

Thanks again.

This one does not have a dock. The usb cable goes right into the camera in a standard usb mini connector. How unlike Sony to use standard connections on consumer equipment! You then just plug that into the computer, push a button in a usb menu screen and it shows up like a hard drive on the computer.

Pretty simple, I'd say. This was my first non-firewire camera for what it's worth, but it works a lot like that did expect it's files transferring, not tape rolling.

hi! very nice shots!. the HDR-XR520V have interval recorder feature? (i need to made time lapse shots)

Hello Michael,

Need big help in terms of info on Sony HDR-XR520V

When you shoot slo-mo with it, 2 questions:

1- does it shoot slo-mo progressive or interlaced?
2- what is the resolution of the slo-mo footage, is it HD or SD?

Thanks! Urgent because I am doing a shoot with the HVX200 shooting 720p and want to shoot extreme slo-mo but be able to cut it in - so hope this camera shoots progressive AND hd slo-mo. Also what speed is the slo-mo at and how many seconds can you shoot in slo-mo?

I need to buy one in the next 24 hours and no one can seem to answer my question nor do the websites on the product explain this.

I did - THANK YOU! I was just about to mail you to say thank you AND ask again for help based on your
answers. Can you kindly help again? I still have time to figure this out, need to know by tomorrow morning and pull the trigger on a decision to order a camera for next day delivery to arrive Tuesday- going with either yours or the Casio EX-F1 which definitely records 300p at 512x384 (I know really low but it's better than most cameras, and may even be higher res than your Sony)

Three things:
1- WHere can I download your quicktime video? I am new to VImeo and don't know exactly where to find it.

2- what is the native resolution of your slo-mo clip?!? (I understand you think it's 480 but can you kindly check for me? I believe the easiest way to find out is to open your clip in "Quicktime" then go to the "Window" menu, choose "Show movie inspector", then in the inspector look under "Normal size" and it will give it's resolution. NOTE: the only possible complication where this would not work would be if the camera automatically resizes the clip for you when it records onto the hard drive. In other words the camera spits out all its video at 1920 x 1080 regardless of the actual resolution it shoots in. If that is the case then all we can do is guess, BUT if not the case then Quicktime Inspector should be able to tell you. Can you tape a new slo-mo clip for me and check BEFORE you change it yourself to 540p?

3- I would love to download a native slo-mo clip you take (just needs to be like 5 seconds) so I can see how good it holds up to some 720p footage I have that I can cut it in with - that way I can manipulate it myself and turn it 540p, 720p, 1080p whatever I want with the tools I have and see how far i can take it. I will do that with your quicktime clip from above to get started, but since you already changed it to 540p it could already be a bit degraded, etc. and would love a native one.

Thanks so much for listening. Again you can also reach me at 617-645-8029, would love to chat, or if you feel comfortable with email that's fine.

Thank you again.

thats a long comment mannnn.......

Did we ever find out at which resolution the camcorder records the 240 fps footage? Very curious...