[MacDV] VCR to DVD Strategy

[Brent Radbourne]

One thing that you could do that hasn't been covered yet.  If you have 
toast 7 you can set it to burn mac only and it will save any number of 
files in a continuous series of dvd's.  You could save a 2 hour film 
saved in imovie on about 7 dvd's.  You can get the blanks these days 
for about 30¢ a piece.  So that would be about $2 a movie.  That way 
they would be ready for editing by just copying back to your hard drive 
in DV format.


On 10-Apr-06, at 5:11 PM, tmeyer at lps.org wrote:

> OOOOOPS!!
>
> 39.99 not 399.99
>
> Tom
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Nick Scalise <nickscalise at cox.net>
> Date: Monday, April 10, 2006 1:44 pm
> Subject: Re: Re: [MacDV] VCR to DVD Strategy
>
>>> From: Patty Winter <patty1 at sonic.net>
>>>
>>>> From: Nick Scalise <nickscalise at cox.net>
>>>>
>>>> You could also just buy another firewire drive. If you buy a
>> bare drive and an empty enclosure and build it yourself, you can
>> get it pretty cheap.
>>>
>>> I was going to suggest additional storage to Dennis, also, but I
>> hadn't> thought of homebrewing. I know that when I buy a name-brand
>> drive, it
>>> comes with the right drivers for Macs and works smoothly. What
>> would I
>>> have to do to accomplish the same results myself? And what kind
>> of cost
>>> savings are we talking about? (The name-brand FW 800 drives seem
>> to run
>>> about $1/GB these days; less for FW 400.)
>>
>> FW400 cases are about $40. Here's one that is recommended from
>> another list I am on:
>> <http://www.pcmicrostore.com/PartDetail.aspx?q=p:10500933>
>> And another recommended one:
>> <http://www.pcmicrostore.com/PartDetail.aspx?q=p:10502309>
>>
>> Here's a Firewire 800 for $58:
>> <http://www.pcmicrostore.com/PartDetail.aspx?q=p:10502314>
>>
>> NewEgg.com has a Western Digital 320GB HD on sale for $115.00.
>>
>> About $.50 - $.55/GB
>>
>> That's a start anyway. CompUSA and BestBuy sometime have sales on
>> stuff too. If you want you can go over to dealmac.com and sign up
>> for them to notify you when stuff goes on sale.
>>
>> Standard disclaimer, I am not at all affiliated with any of the
>> above stores, websites or manufacturers.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Nick Scalise
>> nickscalise at cox.net
>>
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