[MacDV] Video project - VHS to DVD to DV to DVD

[Norm Lamoureux]

Hello,
             All of the Canon Camcorders (ZR 80, 85 &
90) have the analog to digital pass through. If you
don't already have a converter it is a good way to get
one and you get a camera and camcorder all in one. I
purchased on from "Abes of Maine" for a tad more than
it would have cost me for just a converter. The
Canon's are a good top end consumer model, not
Prosumer but are great for converting analog to
digital.

for what it's worth,
Norm L.



--- Richard Dalziel Sharpe <dalshar at optushome.com.au>
wrote:

> >
> 
> Hi Robert.
> I can think of two alternatives that are reasonable
> given your level of 
> expertise.
> The first is the more difficult the second will mean
> re doing your step 
> two.
> You could convert the DVD back to almost any
> QuickTime format to edit 
> it.
> If you want to use iMovie 4 as your editor then it
> will probably be 
> best to convert it to DV.
> There are many shareware and free ware applications
> that will do this, 
> varying hugely in complexity and usability, I use
> DVDx DVPro. This does 
> a good job of converting and is reasonably easy to
> use. A trial version 
> is available so you can give it a go to see what you
> think of the 
> quality. Remember that every conversion you make
> will lower the 
> quality.
> My strong recommendation is to capture your VHS
> tapes to a DV camera, 
> thus converting them to DV and then capturing the
> resulting files onto 
> your Mac. Some DV cameras will allow you to play
> through to  your Mac 
> thus saving time.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> Richard Dalziel-Sharpe
> Australia
> 
> 
> > On 16/09/2004, at 10:45 AM, Robert L. Vaessen
> wrote:
> > Recently, we (Myself and some of the other cast
> members) decided that 
> > we had enough computing hardware, expertise,
> software to move the 
> > movie to DVD in an effort to re-master and
> preserve our favorite 
> > movie.
> >
> > Thus began a great quest; an epic restoration
> project unlike anything 
> > we had ever experienced before.
> >
> >
> > The challenge defined
> > ---------------------
> > Here are the steps that define our project. Steps
> have changed/evolved 
> > as the project moved forward. I've spent well over
> three weeks just 
> > getting to step 2, and I've got two coasters
> already.
> >
> > + Step 1: Obtain original footage on VHS.
> > Completed: Two VHS tapes were located. One raw
> footage, one edited 
> > production copy. Quality was poor but legible.
> > + Step 2: Convert analog VHS to DVD. We probably
> should have gone 
> > straight to DV, but we didn't...
> > Completed: Two DVDs produced using a hardware
> analog to DVD converter. 
> > The conversion process stabilized the tracking,
> eliminated some video 
> > artifacts, and improved the overall quality of the
> movie. The DVDs 
> > contain a VIDEO_TS folder with the following
> contents (from now on I 
> > will only refer to one of the DVDs).
> > + Step 3: Take the DVD and read the data back into
> the computer. Need 
> > to do this in order to perform video and audio
> editing of the movie 
> > using iMovie.
> > + Step 4: Take the DVD data, now that it's back on
> the computer and 
> > convert it into a format that iMovie can read.
> > + Step 5: Edit the movie using iMovie.
> > + Step 6: Save the iMovie output in a format that
> can be read by iDVD.
> > + Step 7: Use iDVD in order to add menus, and burn
> the re-mastered 
> > data back onto a DVD.
> 
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