[MacDV] Re: Making DVD's from VHS tapes

[Erica Sadun]

At 4:09 PM -0400 10/6/03, Aaron Kwinter wrote:
>I would like to transfer a number of home movies (on VHS) to DVD and I am
>trying to determine the easiest and quickest way to do this. I have a Sony
>PC9 DV video camera that has a built in analog to digital converter. If I
>want to copy the vhs analog movies onto DVD is it necessary for me to first
>copy them onto a digital tape in my video camera or is there some way that I
>can just pass the signal through and record directly into imovie (and then
>make a DVD with idvd). Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Passthrough is available on some cameras, not on others.

-- Erica