[MacDV] Re: Editing from DVD

[Thubten Kunga]

Looks like iMovie won't import anything but tape. I hooked up the DVD 
player to my TRV-900 and the iMovie 3 sees there is "Camera No Tape" 
attached. Import ... is grey in the file menu and the attached image is 
not showing via FireWire. Does this camera not pass through signal? I 
thought it did. Maybe not. At any rate iMovie 3 is behaving as if a 
taped recording is the only way in. I have a stand alone Sony 
transcoder. I'll have to see if that will work next.

k

On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 01:16  PM, Ken McNamara wrote:

> Thubten Kunga wrote:
>>
>> The only caveat would be if the macro-vision copy protection scheme
>> would block the transcoding from happening if it's a protected
>> commercial source. I don't know if it will or not. But I'll give it a
>> try later today if no one reports their try in the next hour. Can't 
>> you
>> try it Ken?
>>
>> k
>
> I'm kind of like you - if no one reports having done it, I'll probably
> try it sometime (but it'll be at least this weekend or later).
>
> Just hadn't given it much thought before.  I'm happy archiving on DV
> tape, no point in doing this.  But I've got a couple of friends that
> just keep itching to dump their personal material to DVD.  The
> editing/quality issue is the only thing holding them back.
>
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