Re: Digital Camcorders

[Tom Baker]

I forgot to mention another neat thing about that Miglia video 
converter box (http://www.miglia.com/products/video/director2/). I can 
connect a VCR to it and feed commercial movies into my Mac though it, 
edit these movies in iMovie, and then send the movies back out through 
the Miglia to the VCR (or two VCRs) which makes copies of them, or burn 
the movies onto DVD in my Mac's superdrive.

Since my young daughter had seen the Titanic exhibit in Chicago, I 
thought it would be neat for her to see the Titanic movie that won so 
many academy awards a few years back, but of course I didn't want her 
to also see all the nudity and steamy sex that was in it, nor hear the 
profanity spewed by certain characters at times. So I bought a DVD of 
the movie at WalMart, fed it into my Mac through the Miglia video 
converter box, edited out all the objectional stuff in iMovie (and 
muted the cusswords), and then brought out a nice G-rated version of 
Titanic onto videocassette for the family to watch. It's a hit with 
everyone who sees it, and allows kids to get a sense of how huge the 
ship was and what a tragedy the sinking and loss of life was, without 
any of the bad influences of the original movie.

Thus, a VCR that will play both VHS tapes and DVD allows you to send 
entire commercial movies in either format into your Mac through the 
Miglia box for editing. The Miglia will also defeat copy-protection 
schemes that prevent direct VCR-to-VCR copying, and gives you nice 
clean video to send back out of your Mac (which can THEN be used for 
VCR-to-VCR copying if you like, so you don't tie up your Mac making 
more copies).

Maybe a camcorder that will do analog-to-DV conversions can also do the 
above (used as an intermediary between the VCR and the Mac), although I 
doubt it could defeat a commercial movie's copy protection, but I could 
be wrong. Anybody tried it?

Tom
On Aug 9, 2004, at 7:46 AM, Brian Mahoney wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Starr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 8:46 AM
Subject: Re: Digital Camcorders

--- You wrote:
I know we have talk about this before so I hope someone remembers
Is there Camcorder that has Pas through from anlog to digital so you
can covert VCR to Digital
--- end of quote ---
I have a Canon zr40 that has a built in ad/da converter that does a
perfect job
in real time.  I've seen it advertized for under $400 US but it is now
discontinued.

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