[MacDV] Converting VHS Videos to DVD's

[Steven Rogers]

On Apr 13, 2004, at 8:38 AM, Ian Tucker wrote:

> A friend has purchased a Sony DV camera and has been copying VHS  
> footage into the camera and in turn, through to FCP4 on his iMac.    
> He is happy with the results, but is concerned that the amount of work 
> he has to do will create undue wear and tear on the transport 
> mechanism of his camera.

Many of the Sony cameras have a pass through mode that allows the 
camera to act as a bridge so there's no "wear and tear".

> Is there any way of getting the DVD's audio into either FCP , or 
> iMovie, or does he have to fall back on the slow, laborious task of 
> passing his VHS content through his DVD camera ?.

http://denisx.dyndns.org/extractor (the site doesn't seem to be up 
right now) will give you an MP2 audio file. Use iTunes to convert that 
to an MP3 audio file, and you're good to go.

SR