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Leastbest Spielberg
posted Thursday, 19 January 2006
Years ago I had a bunch of my grandfather's home movies put on videotape by Sears (of all places). They did a crummy job and blamed it on the age of the film. It ended up being a chaotic five hours of video (no sound) that was hard to watch. I've always wanted to do something about it and now I'm able to.
My new laptop has a firewire port and I started out by plugging a firewire cable from my Digital Hi-8 Video Camera to it. The laptop recognized it and I was able to import all of the movies that I made on that camera. Once they were in the computer it was a snap to learn how to do transitions, titling and special effects. Within a week I had some serious footage trimmed of all the fat and looking good. I burned them onto DVD and life is good.
Then I wanted to go back and do the same with my old videotapes. This would be much harder. My videocamera doesn't have analog passthrough. That means you can't run your vcr through it to convert the signal to digital. To solve the problem I bought a Canopus AVDC Converter. Now I can convert anything and finally get all of the old movies organized. I'm really looking forward to giving copies to family.
My new laptop has a firewire port and I started out by plugging a firewire cable from my Digital Hi-8 Video Camera to it. The laptop recognized it and I was able to import all of the movies that I made on that camera. Once they were in the computer it was a snap to learn how to do transitions, titling and special effects. Within a week I had some serious footage trimmed of all the fat and looking good. I burned them onto DVD and life is good.
Then I wanted to go back and do the same with my old videotapes. This would be much harder. My videocamera doesn't have analog passthrough. That means you can't run your vcr through it to convert the signal to digital. To solve the problem I bought a Canopus AVDC Converter. Now I can convert anything and finally get all of the old movies organized. I'm really looking forward to giving copies to family.
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