At 5:12 PM -0700 01/15/2004, Ron Reames wrote: >You would not be happy with the LARGE amount of time it would take you. >Go to a professional service. >Mine charged me about $30 to transfer a videotape to DVD. > >Ron > >On Jan 15, 2004, at 1:14 PM, Bonnie wrote: > >> A recent b'day gift of a dvd/vcr player has left me with a now >> redundant vcr. My beige G3 MT has audio/video jacks in the back. This >> has me thinking that maybe I can use the old vcr to transfer some of >> our old vcr tapes to dvd (our non-copywrite tapes, of course) >> Obviously I'll need a dvd burner to do this. My questions are: Is this >> possible with my set up? If so, what will I need?
$30 to transfer a single videotape to DVD sounds like a pretty expensive way to go to me, especially if someone has a whole library of old videotapes from a camcorder or whatever that he wants to transfer to DVD. If it's that big a pain to feed video into a Mac from a VCR (or camcorder or DVD player or whatever) and edit it, and then burn it onto DVDs (or send it back out onto videotape again to share with people who only have VCRs), then how come they make devices like this: http://eshop.macsales.com/Item_MailList.cfm?ID=5593&Item=ADSAPI550 that act as "bridges" between the VCR/camera/TV/whatever and the Mac, so you can move the video back and forth? Isn't transferring video into the Mac, editing it, and then burning it onto DVDs just the sort of things Macs are suppposed to be good for? Is the problem in this particular case just that the Beige Mac in question is an old/slow one? If so, how fast a Mac do you need to do decent video editing? I have a G4 733 "Quicksilver" running 9.2.2, and I've never messed with video except to play with the demo of iMovie that came bundled with this Mac. But I was hoping that if I bought a video "bridge" like the one in the link above I could use it to get all my old family videotapes from my analog camcorder into the Mac, edit it with something like iMovie, and then buy a plug-in Firewire DVD burner to burn them onto DVDs with (or send them out to videotapes in a VCR). That video bridge gadget costs what, $165? Add a Firewire DVD burner for maybe $135, and if you need some space to handle all the video, maybe add a 120-gig drive to your Mac for $100 ($150 for an external), and you should be all set to edit video, right? Thus for around $300, or the cost of paying a professional service to transfer just ten tapes (with no editing or other creative control possible by you), you should be all set to feed an unlimited number of videotapes into your Mac, edit them, and send it back out on DVD and tape. Am I living in a fantasy world here, or is this not possible as I described it? Tom -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
