begin quoting Gabriel Sechan as of Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 02:26:30PM -0600: > Following a death in the family, I want to try and digitize some of our old > family albums and video tapes, so they'll be available in the future. The > albums would be standard photographs, mostly 3x5s. The home videos would > be a mix of regular VHS and some sort of micro-VHS tape. I've never done > this before, so I have a few questions about it. > > 1)Can a normal home scanner work for the photographs (note: these are > photos, not negatives)? If not, what do I need?
It all depends on the resolution you want. Even normal home scanners of a few years ago get pretty good. I think you can get a 2400x2400dpi scanner for a hundred bucks or so these days. > 2)I think I'd just need to play the VHS tapes into a TV capture card, am I > missing anything there? I don't think Macrovision is an issue for home-recorded VHS. > 3)We may not have the converter that takes the mini-VHS tapes and plays > them in a VCR anymore. Anywhere I can get that type of equipment? No idea. Probably Google, ebay, etc. > 4)What format would you suggest I use? I'd prefer a lossless format for > both, I can always make lossy copies later. My scanner/software uses TIFF for images. Talk to the video geeks about video. :) -- Set aside oodles of disk. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
