[MacDV] Re: Breaking DVD film up into clips

[Gerhard Kuhn]

Most older Sony Camcorders had the ability to act as a digital  
converter, it seems a lot of newer cameras have omitted that feature  
but you can get around it by recording analog input to tape.   
Apparently a lot of European cameras have the feature disabled because  
of a taxation  issue that would have a camera that can record from a  
analog input be taxed as a VCR with the money intended to go to the  
movie industry and help with piracy losses.


Gerhard


On Aug 25, 2008, at 9:58 AM, Gordon Alley wrote:

> Or you can use a digital camcorder that can do analog->digital  
> conversion, often called "pass-through mode". You plug the output  
> from a VCR into its AV inputs, and connect a Firewire cable from the  
> camcorder to the Mac.
>
> I think you'll still have the problem separating the clips, though.  
> But bypassing the DVD step will result in better-quality video.
>
> -Gordon

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