[G4] Analog to Digital Video Help

[diane]

Hey Wade, you got much better answers than I did when asking an 
almost identical question a couple of weeks ago.   :)

Mel, have you used the Daystar product and do you know the max screen 
size it can produce? I also would like to import analog tapes into a 
newer machine, I'm currently  using a P6500 with an old Apple 
TV/Video card.

Def stay away from mpg2, I could not figure out a way to convert it 
to another format without losing the video!


Diane


At 6:33 AM -0600 12/1/03, Mel Krewall wrote:
>Wade,
>I don't know anything about the Belkin device, but the InterView USB 
>device from Daystar 
>(http://daystartechnology.com/products/xlr8_products/b_ps_usbivosx.html) 
>will allow you to take composite video out and converts it to 
>Quicktime video, which you can then convert to DV with Quicktime 
>Pro. The converted video will work in iMovie. This is not a high 
>quality solution but it is only about $50 (plus QT Pro), which is a 
>lot less than the DV bridges (about $300) or DV video cameras. It 
>comes with some nice capture software and also some software that 
>will let you use your video camera as a webcam. I have used this 
>method to take Sony 8mm video into iMovie and it works fairly well. 
>The capture and conversion is a lot more tedious than just plugging 
>your DV camera in and having iMovie control it, but it is 
>inexpensive.
>HTH,
>Mel