[MacDV] VCR to DVD Strategy

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i am thinking of buying a canopus. about 250 with tax. are they worth
it?  How do they work  - just hook up the vcr to the canpous and then
hook up the canopus to your mac?


On 4/10/06, Dennis Fazio <dfz at mac.com> wrote:
> I am in the process of converting about a dozen home video VCR tapes
> to DVD. I have a Canopus ADVC-100 I got a while ago and it works just
> great feeding into iMovie on my PowerBook.
>
> I could use some advice on how to best manage the quantity. I have
> about 100GB of firewire disk available which will hold 3 or 4 2-hour
> tapes at about 24-25GB apiece. I was thinking I would just do a
> direct copy/convert one tape at a time to DVD, but then I thought I
> might want to edit them down a bit later on before a final version.
> That would require writing to DVD to free up space and later ripping
> them back in to edit.
>
> My concern is the loss of quality from the extra compression step.
> Since the original is 200 or so line resolution from a VCR camera, is
> there a way to do a temporary write, re-rip, edit and rewrite process
> without really losing any quality that I or others without expert
> eyes would really notice from this kind of source material? If I
> wrote, say, 1/2 hour or 1 hour of material per DVD to reduce
> compression, would that help?
>
> How have others handled this kind of thing in the past? Just process
> one at a time to final edited version? My concern is that if I throw
> in the editing time for each tape before reading in the next, it may
> take me a very long time to get them all transferred and I'd like to
> get them all into digital form quickly before the tapes deteriorate
> too much further in quality.
> --
> Dennis Fazio
> dfz at mac.com
>
>
>
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