[MacDV] DVD Import?

[Rod Duncan]

I have  JVC dual miniDV & S-VHS Video Deck with Firewire. It has 
additional RCA analogue & S-Video inputs for attaching external 
decks/camera's. I have imported directly into iMovie, FCE & FCP from 
the VHS analogue side or through the inputs directly into those 
programs. You don't have to copy to the miniDV side first, you 
transfer directly from the analogue side by capturing directly. It 
has to capture in real time into iMovie, FCE or FCP but once in you 
export to Quicktime to burn your respective DVD. Your comments about 
100 hours won't matter 'cause you can only burn one DVD at a time. 
Once it has burned/archived on DVD, reformat the capture HD or 
partion and do another. So you only need enough HD space for one DVD. 
The good news, since you have now imported it into an editing 
program, you will be able to cull that 100 hours down... down... 
down... to only the best and truly worth while. I am assuming that it 
didn't get edited before this.

Hope this helps.

Rod

>I have a lot of Beta, 8mm and VHS tapes that need to wind up as DVDs using
>iMovie and or FCE with iDVD.
>
>If I were to transfer the raw video to DVDs using a DVD recorder, I assume
>that there is no direct way to import the DVDs into iMovie or FCE unless I
>connect a DVD player through a A to D bridge such as Canopus to capture the
>video.
>
>I also assume that the quality of the video would degrade by doing this.
>Yes, I know I could just capture the original tapes one at a time and make a
>project. But the method above would at least preserve the originals on DVDs.
>
>Comments anyone?
>
>
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