[aklug] Re: Finding computer hardware in Achorage - analog video input

From: Jeremy Austin <jhaustin@gmail.com>
Date: Mon Oct 11 2010 - 17:48:38 AKDT

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 4:33 PM, James Tweet <jamestweet@yahoo.com> wrote:
> You will get better results if you buy a digital video camera that will transfer
> directly to your mac. This will do nothing for anything you currently have in
> analog format.

I agree. Any old Sony digital-8 camera can do analog -> DV conversion,
over Firewire. You're unlikely to get anything using USB that is
superior.

> How much video do you have to transfer? If it is not too much just take it to
> Costco or Sam's club. They convert tapes to DVD.

If you intend to edit the video, then ripping from the low-bandwidth
MPEG2 on DVD is likely to introduce a generation loss of quality.
Otherwise this procedure will save you tons of time. No idea how
spendy it is though.

jermudgeon
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