[MacDV] A-D conversion in DV camcorder... any good?

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Anxiously awaiting someone to respond to this Sean.
Good questions.

Terry

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On 4/26/03 9:00 AM, "Sean" <spenney at stemnet.ca> wrote:

> I was reading in MacWorld magazine how the audio in ports on the Mac may
> 
> not be as high quality as third party options (although the article
> doesn't quantify how much the Mac audio-in ports are inferior) and now
> I'm wondering.
> 
> I'm using my old, trusty Beige G3 with the built-in A/V card running OS
> 9.2 and sometimes OS X 10.2.5. I want to digitize some of my old LP's.
> 
> What I've done in the past is to connect the turntable to a pre-amp and
> into the audio-in RCA jack of the Beige G3 and record it directly to
> Peak or something like it.
> 
> If the analogue-digital converter in the Mac is inferior to others,
> would the following setup produce a better result:
> 
> Connect the turntable to the pre-amp's stereo inputs.
> Connect to pre-amp's stereo outputs to the analogue stereo inputs on my
> Sony DV camcorder.
> Connect the DV camcorder to the Beige G3's via a third party FireWire
> port.
> 
> Now, I can play the LP, have Sony digitize it, and have iMovie import it
> 
> *live* and then have iMovie extract the audio from this new clip and
> save it as an AIFF file ready to be massaged and burned to a CD-R.
> 
> My question: Will the Sony camcorder digitize the incoming analogue
> signal better than the Beige G3's A/V card?
> 
> Sean