A good pci video card for analog input and output is the DC30 Plus miroMotion. You can find it on ebay for $50 - 100. You would need a video capture application like BTV (http://www.bensoftware.com) which is shareware. You could then edit with iMovie.Ten or twelve years ago I spent thousands of dollars on a really nice professional Canon Hi-8 camcorder (if you saw the movie Titanic, it's the same camcorder that the guy was filming the shipwreck with on the ocean floor through the portholes of the submarine). So now I've got this big
If you were to move up to Jaguar or Panther, There is a terrific free driver for the DC30 plus,DC30 Xact 1.5.2 (http://www.alfanet.it/squared5/dc30xact.html). This is the description on the web site, "And the DC30/DC30plus, now can deliver professional, uncompressed video; with the included LOSSLESS 4:2:2 codec, it can be stored efficiently, saving 50% of your disk space". The audio is locked and stays synchronized even for long movies.
I use this card with the Xact driver and Panther and get very good results.
Martha
collection of Hi-8 videotapes of family and other events that I'd like to get onto VHS videotapes, so I can put them into a VCR and view them on a TV, and also make copies for relatives to see. The hi-8 camcorder still works fine, too, and I hate to replace it with a cheap DV one.
My question: what equipment would I need to get these Hi-8 tapes (in analog format I assume) into the Mac where I could edit it in iMovie, and then send it back out to a VCR?
I guess I could burn this video onto DVDs, but not all of my relatives have DVD players yet, although EVERYBODY'S got a VCR. Also, VHS videotapes are not only cheap but they're also erasable, so that if I don't like a video "production" that I created with iMovie, I could just erase it in the VCR and do it over. DVDs are NOT cheap, and I understand that burning a video DVD is a one-shot gamble. I figure I can leave DVD burning for later, after I perfect my video editing skills on videotape.
I have a Quicksilver 733 Mac running 9.2.2., and it came with iMovie 2.0.3 installed. This Mac has firewire ports, 1500 megs of RAM, and plenty of hard drive space. So, can anyone advise me what I need to get going?
Thanks!
Tom
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