[MacDV] Re: VHS (ultimately) to DVD)--MacDV Digest, Vol 10, Issue 43

[Ted Langdell]

Ted Langdell
Ted Langdell Creative Broadcast Services
Marysville, CA
Main:  	(530) 741-1212


Why bother with the multiple steps and lengthy rendering involved in 
your workflow below.

Just buy a direct to DVD recorder (with or without a hard drive) and 
make it a simple process.

With the hard drive, you can capture entire tapes in one pass, then 
divide the segments into different files and delete the portions you 
don't want.

Create a playlist of the segments you want to transfer to a particular 
DVD, push a button and it begins the transfer. In real-time. No 
rendering.

When the data's burned to the DVD, just one more step to close the DVD 
and you've got something playable in your set top DVD player... without 
the extended rendering time and sometime coaster-burning experience 
that will drive you nuts.

Especially if you have quite a few tapes you want to transfer.

Check stores for closeouts, customer returns and special deals. You 
might be able to pick one up for $500. Test first.  Brand new New DVD 
only recorders (no hard drive) are going at many places for under $300.

Ted.


On May 26, 2005, at 9:21 PM, 
macdv-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com wrote:

> I am going to be converting 4-6-8 hour VHS tape taped from the TV.
> What I want to do is convert the tape to DV delete the shows we no
> longer want and then burn them to DVD.
>