What do I need to transfer my old vcr tapes (perhaps clean them up as well) to my hard drive and eventually to DVD or some other form of viewable medium. I have both a PC and a Mac.
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What do I need to transfer my old vcr tapes (perhaps clean them up as well) to my hard drive and eventually to DVD or some other form of viewable medium. I have both a PC and a Mac.
A video capture card with an A/V-in would be the best way. Probably would cost you $50+.
You need a video capture card.
Click on Video Capture
I have a unit by Dazzle. Works decent, not perfect, though.
We use Dazzle boxes for capturing at my college. They're good quality, though sometimes unreliable.
How about editing, and then mastering to DVD??? Would Final Cut Pro be the best choice for this or Adobe Premier???
Thanks.
Final Cut is extremely easy to use (according to my film and video friends). Adobe has kind of a learning curve, but no more complicated than Photoshop. I like it because I use it for editing animation onto tape.
Both will export to DVD, so it comes down to what interface you like better.
Look what I found...
http://www.formac.com/p_bin/?cid=sol...rters_studiodv
That works too. :D
Its sexy.
Ive only used Final Cut Pro, but it was pretty damn simple. You are going to need other programs though if you want to make your dvd fancy w/ menus and stuff.
Yeah they got DVD Studio Pro for that, but its so damn expensive and Mac cracks are hard to come by.
Get a VCR with S-Video out and get a capture card like Radeon with S-video in. Do not use Mpeg4 or Divx compression when capturing real time video. Use Mpeg2 for 640x480. Make sure that you have at least 10gigs free for the files. High quality compressed Mpeg2 640x480 de-interlaced NTSC video is around 31megs a minute. You can encode at lower quality of course and achieve smaller file sizes. I do all my editing in Premiere, and it sucks. I don't like Premiere, but on PC there really is no other choice. It was difficult to learn and is not intuitive at all, unlike Photoshop. My mac probably couldn't deal with final cut pro.:( I would however recommend that you don't recompress most of the video because that incurs a large penalty in quality. If you want to add titles and other effects, separate that part of the video and apply your effect then use something like Virtual Dub to insert it back in. DVDs are in Mpeg2 format so it makes sense to encode and keep everything in that format. Check out Gordian Knot and TMPGEnc Plus.