Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Larry, I've been after such a camera since yesterday morning - Thanks for the details ; it must have in and out DV if I understand it well + in my case take PAL analog VDO Else a Black Magic intensity Pro interface might do the trick I've been told. Thanks again for the input. Bien cordialement Phili^^e Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: > I had about 40 hours of 8 mm analog video tape to convert to digital > format. Most of it was recorded on an older Sony videocam. I solved > the problem by buying a Sony digital cassette recorder DV-D800 NTSC > at a Sony clearance center. It cost me about $300 new a few years ago > but is available on eBay for less than $100. The cassette recorder is > a small box about 4" by 6" that mounts a video 8 or Hi 8 tape. It > contains a 4" TFT Screen and has the usual VCR controls. The recorder > has standard RCA video and audio outputs, S video inputs and outputs. > and, most important a digital video output. > > The procedure for use was very simple. Simply insert an analog video > tape and connect the digital video output to your Mac Firewire port. > (If you have a new unibody MacBook or MacAir you are out of luck. > They don't have Firewire ports.) Using iMovie, the Mac recognizes > the recorder as a Sony digital videocam and imports the video data > stream. From there on out it is just like using a new digital > videocam. You can edit the movie to your heart's content, adding > breaks, titles, transitions, special effects, etc. Then export the > movie to iDVD to burn the finished disc. > > You could do much the same thing with a digital 8 videocam. The kind > that takes standard analog tapes. Otherwise you would have to find > one with a "pass through" facility. Feed the output from the old > analog camera to the digital camera.Then pass it through to the Mac. > > Incidentally, I found iMovie 6 far easier to use than iMovie '08 for > this purpose. > > Larry Z > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >