[G4] Analog to Digital Video Help

[Mel Krewall]

Diane,
Yes, I have used the InterView device.  This is what it says in the  
Read Me:

"InterView For Mac OS X allows you to use the XLR8 (now Daystar [Mel])  
InterView to capture video and take screen shots under Mac OS X. Video  
can be captured at 352 x 240 at 29.97 frames per second for NTSC video  
sources, and 352 x 288 at 25 frames per second for PAL/SECAM sources.

	InterView movies are saved as QuickTime movie files that can be played  
back on a machine on which InterView is installed, or exported to  
QuickTime formats such as Sorenson, or Photo JPEG for playback on all  
machines with QuickTime installed.

	InterView movies may also be saved as DV streams allowing them to be  
exported into Apple's free iMovie multimedia editing package.

	A still image capture option is available with resolutions of 704 x  
480 (NTSC) or 756 x 576 (PAL/SECAM) sources. Interpolation is used to  
deinterlace the scan lines. Still images can be saved in a wide variety  
of formats."

I have successfully imported the video from my Sony 8mm camcorder and  
converted it into DV, which I then edited in iMovie and burned in iDVD.  
If played from the resulting DVD the video does of course fill the  
screen. If you don't want to get a DV camera or bridge, this will work  
fine. The video is not up to DV quality, but that is a cost/quality  
tradeoff.

BTW, I did suggest the InterView device when you asked before in my  
original response to your post. If I recall correctly, that thread took  
a bit of a detour from your original question.
Mel

"They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. Golf is more  
complicated than that."
  ~Gardner Dickinson


On Dec 1, 2003, at 6:37 PM, diane wrote:

> Hey Wade, you got much better answers than I did when asking an almost  
> identical question a couple of weeks ago.   :)
>
> Mel, have you used the Daystar product and do you know the max screen  
> size it can produce? I also would like to import analog tapes into a  
> newer machine, I'm currently  using a P6500 with an old Apple TV/Video  
> card.
>
> Def stay away from mpg2, I could not figure out a way to convert it to  
> another format without losing the video!
>
>
> Diane
>
>
> At 6:33 AM -0600 12/1/03, Mel Krewall wrote:
>> Wade,
>> I don't know anything about the Belkin device, but the InterView USB  
>> device from Daystar  
>> (http://daystartechnology.com/products/xlr8_products/ 
>> b_ps_usbivosx.html) will allow you to take composite video out and  
>> converts it to Quicktime video, which you can then convert to DV with  
>> Quicktime Pro. The converted video will work in iMovie. This is not a  
>> high quality solution but it is only about $50 (plus QT Pro), which  
>> is a lot less than the DV bridges (about $300) or DV video cameras.  
>> It comes with some nice capture software and also some software that  
>> will let you use your video camera as a webcam. I have used this  
>> method to take Sony 8mm video into iMovie and it works fairly well.  
>> The capture and conversion is a lot more tedious than just plugging  
>> your DV camera in and having iMovie control it, but it is  
>> inexpensive.
>> HTH,
>> Mel
>
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