If you have a miniDV camera with firewire, I think that you may be able to play your VCR through it (the miniDV cam) into the Mac Mini. Use imovie to record, edit and burn it to a DVD.
Brian O'Neal On Mar 3, 2005, at 3:55 PM, Stuart Ungar wrote: > Well, I ordered my Mac mini and now I have at least a > couple weeks to wait for it. One of the things I > wanted to do was transfer my home VHS and camcorder > videos to DVD. It looks like I have three options for > this: > > 1) do it on the mini with software (new verson of > toast?) > 2) get one of those recording DVD players or combo > players > 3) pay a service to do it. > > My question is which method would give me the best > results. And, if the computer way is it, how > difficult of a process is it? > > Any help with this appreciated! > Stuart > > ===== > Louisville At-home Dads (L.A.D.s) > Bringing together stay-at-home fathers, their children and their > families. > 502-426-5376 > LouisvilleLADS-owner at yahoogroups.com > > > > > __________________________________ > Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! > Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web > http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be March 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be March 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
