thanks for the great info. I think I'll repair my existing camera and wait to see if iMovie 08 gets any better before I move on. I also have been looking at that very Panasonic camera. Maybe it will be $200 by the time iMovie 08 is ready for prime time!
On Aug 17, 2007, at 2:04 PM, Jonathan Fletcher wrote: > Sorry, Rusty and Andy. Nice idea if it would work, but alas, MiniDV > is not the same thing as the mini tapes that will go into a VCR. The > small VHS format that goes into an adapter that fits a VCR is VHS-C. > That is NOT the same thing as MiniDV. It will NOT work. > > MiniDV puts the information on the tape in digital format. VHS (and > therefore its -C manifestation) uses analog encoding. > > There is no way to even convert the formats within a VHS player as > both formats REQUIRE the use of tape in their respective sizes and > formats that wrap around high RPM drum heads. > > Your best bet is a cheap MiniDV camcorder that doesn't do much more > than let you run tapes through and get a FireWire output. Use it for > only that and coddle it moving forward as that will be the only way, > short of an expensive deck or service, to access those tapes in the > future. > > Then get your fancy one that uses a hard drive or memory card. The > big advantage to these is that the time you spend transferring video > to your computer to edit it is greatly reduced as well as it's a > computer-readable format. I'm jealous. > > Here's a cool Panasonic one that gets about an hour of 1080i HD on a > 4GB card. I heard this one talked about on a podcast the other day. > On Amazon: > <http://tinyurl.com/29tft2> > > j. > > > On Aug 17, 2007, at 12:00 PM, Rusty <rustyjb at bellsouth.net> wrote: >> >> Radio shack makes one - $20-30. >> >> Thursday, August 16, 200711:00 PMAndy Arnoldandyarnold1 at mac.com >> >>> I have a Canon MiniDV camcorder that is acting up. I really don't >>> want to repair it, I would like to get a new hard drive or SD memory >>> card camcorder. The only problem is I have dozens of MiniDV tapes >>> that still need to be imported into iMovie. Does anyone know of a >>> solution, like a cassette adapter that plays in a regular VCR, for >>> example? >>> >>> Thanks >>> Andy > > > > -- > Jonathan Fletcher > jfletch at newmediaconstco.com > Project Foreman > NewMedia Construction Co. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be September 25 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >
