[MacDV] Making Chapters in video

[Marilyn Elhart]

I think I am going to go the easy way out with the few 8mm we have and have
them done at a little place not far from here.
    Did you have any trouble with the actual iMovie to iDVD process and
burn?   I like the method you mentioned since I am such a newbie with all of
this I would have not known which method to use.  I don't think I will
bother with music at least for a while, since I tend to do a talking
monologue I think It would just add more time at this part of the process.
Were there other snafus that you worked around?  What brand bland DVD's did
you use?
    I have a very very newbie question.  Once you have burned a DVD and it
is not full can you burn more on it later or that you get?
    Thanks David you give me hope!

On 1/15/07 1:04 PM, "David Abramowitz" <david.abramowitz at verizon.net> wrote:

> Perfect, then you have almost everything you need. Now, the one thing
> to check is if your Canon digital (which is what we have too, ZR10)
> has inputs for your analog source, either a VCR or an 8mm camera. In
> the former case, we didn't have any, so for this massive project, I
> purchased the Canopus ADVC-100, which has since been replaced by the
> 110. One source is here at B&H Photo:
> 
> http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?
> O=Search&A=details&Q=&sku=349146&is=REG&addedTroughType=search
> 
> This thing has all the ports you would ever need for analog to
> digital or digital to analog. So the basic setup for the VHS tapes was:
> 
> VCR->Canopus Box->Output FireWire to Mac into iMovie
> 
> For the 8mm tapes, that was a harder story, because I don't know
> where you live, but it was a real pain trying to find an 8mm
> camcorder, or a digital one that also played 8mm tapes. We finally
> found one at a local Circuit City, so we bought it. Then the setup
> for the 8mm tapes became:
> 
> Digital/8mm Camcroder ->  FireWire to Mac in iMovie. So essentially,
> the older 8mm tape would play on the Digital/8mm camera, and be
> "converted to digital" as it left that camera via FIreWire. This was
> extremely helpful, because otherwise we would have had to go through
> the Canopus box again, or cable the older 8mm camera to the ZR10, and
> record on the ZR10, then go back rewind and import into iMovie with
> the ZR10 (you can't import into iMovie while the video is being
> recorded on the ZR10). So finding that old "combo" camera was a real
> saver. I can't remember which model it was (we returned it after we
> were done ­ gotta love retail!), but it was a Sony, I remember that.
> 
> By the way, I forgot to mention we had to buy a combo camera, because
> our Sony Camcorder (big old clunky 8mm one) died, and we couldn't use
> it anymore. Even if we could, though, we would have had to
> essentially repeat the same scenario as the VCR, because the older
> cameras didn't have FireWire digital output.
> 
> There's my brain dump, feel free to ask any other questions. Though
> taxing timewise, it was a fun project to convert everything, but the
> Chapter Markers in iMovie (that get transfered automatically) are  a
> lifesaver, and it's fun to add music, pick themes, and so on. Adding
> chapters in iMovie is just a matter of advancing through the tape,
> finding the spot where a new chapter should begin (we used the arrow
> keys to advance a frame at a time to get the exact spot, and marking
> the chapter.
> 
> Have fun!
> 
> - Dave
> 
> On Jan 15, 2007, at 1:17 AM, Marilyn Elhart wrote:
> 
> 
>> Bless your heart, I think this is one of the most hopeful replies I
>> have
>> read.  Newbies -me-have so much to learn but it can sound like
>> there is
>> nothing but problems.  My goal is to turn Analog tapes into DVD'
>> from old
>> Sony Camcorder through new Canon Digital to iMovie on a Mac and
>> then it
>> started sounding really daunting.  I have one to the iMovie but
>> have done
>> nothing further-just got it there tonight.  Any other tips or hints
>> would be
>> so appreciated.  I do have and have read and underlined iMovieHD
>> the Missing
>> Manual.  Have iLife 6.  Thanks, Marilyn
>> 
> 
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