[MacDV] Re: Breaking DVD film up into clips

[Gordon Alley]

I've had a couple of Canon miniDV camcorders that both had pass-through (a
ZR-40 and an Elura 65), and I''ve ordered a Canon HV30 (High Def) that also
has the feature (according to the manual I downloaded).

-Gordon

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Gerhard Kuhn <gerhardk at mac.com> wrote:

> Most older Sony Camcorders had the ability to act as a digital converter,
> it seems a lot of newer cameras have omitted that feature but you can get
> around it by recording analog input to tape.  Apparently a lot of European
> cameras have the feature disabled because of a taxation  issue that would
> have a camera that can record from a analog input be taxed as a VCR with the
> money intended to go to the movie industry and help with piracy losses.
>
> Gerhard
>
>
> On Aug 25, 2008, at 9:58 AM, Gordon Alley wrote:
>
> Or you can use a digital camcorder that can do analog->digital conversion,
> often called "pass-through mode". You plug the output from a VCR into its AV
> inputs, and connect a Firewire cable from the camcorder to the Mac.
> I think you'll still have the problem separating the clips, though. But
> bypassing the DVD step will result in better-quality video.
>
> -Gordon
>
>

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Gordon B. Alley
http://www.gordonalley.com
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