[MacDV] Re: how to get VHS video into computer for editing?

[Thubten Kunga]

Hi again Brenda,
You feed the DV camera your analog VHS signal and it passes on through 
to the computer digitally from the DV camera NO TAPE. When you are 
passing edited video back to the camera, the camera will output the 
analog signal which you connect to your VHS deck where you make a dub 
as you are making the DV tape too. If you have more than one VHS deck 
you can daisy chain them to all record the output at once.

lol. No the VHS VCRs can't plan DV tape. You want to research DV 
cameras use http://www.supervideo.com

How much money you want to spend?

k

On Sunday, February 2, 2003, at 04:00  PM, Brenda Pedersen wrote:

> On 2/2/03, Kunga wrote:
>
>> Forget about VHS any more. The cheapest new or used MiniDV camera will
>> record radically better video. You can use the DV camera to transcode
>> your original VHS video into the DV format on your iBook. And you can
>> record them to the DV format to preserve maximum "quality" of what you
>> have in the obsolete and YOU WILL NEVER USE AGAIN VHS format.
>>
>> OK Brenda. Promise me that. Make buying a cheap DV camera your #1
>> priority. Not Digital 8. Horror stories of Digital 8 eating tape.
>
> OK - miniDV and used/new miniDV camcorder it is...!
>
> So I get the 8mm film (and all 'keeper' VHS tapes as not using Digial 
> 8....)
> converted to miniDV. And purchase a miniDV camcorder.
>
> The camcorder will hook up to computer via firewire and video is input 
> for
> editing. Then the edited video comes back out of the computer to a new
> miniDV tape. Now how to I convert the miniDV to a format that my 
> digitally
> challenged family members can access?
>
> Can a regular VCR play the miniDV tapes? Do they insert into a 
> 'converter'
> tape much the same as the JVC camcorder tapes do? And is there any way 
> for a
> miniDV camera to 'read' analog VHS format tapes? I see I have to do 
> some
> research on miniDV camcorders!
>
> Thanks for your help and advice.
>
> Brenda