[Dixielandjazz] Video transfers for editing old VHS

[Dan Augustine]

Nancy and DJML--
     Hmm.  Can't you just dub or copy the VHS tape to a DVD, and then 
read the DVD in your computer's CD/DVD player and copy the file to 
your hard-drive (i can do this on my Mac)?  Once it's on your 
hard-drive, seems like you could massage and edit it with iMovie or 
whatever.  I have a combo VHS/DVD recorder that allows me to dub a 
VHS tape to a DVD, but there are probably also electronics store that 
would do this for you.  I think the resulting file would be MUCH too 
large to fit on a CD, which can only hold 700 MB, unless you're 
talking about a VHS piece that's only a couple of minutes long.

     Dan
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>Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 17:58:45 -0800
>From: Nancy Giffin <NANCYink at surewest.net>
>To: Dixieland Jazz <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
>Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Video transfers for editing old VHS
>
>Thanks for the off-list suggestions, however it's not so simple as getting a
>DVD/VHS machine. Those DVDs cannot be EDITED.
>I'm looking for someone with some high-tech knowledge of how to get from a
>VHS to a DATA file that can be edited in iMovie. The files would need to be
>on a CD, not a DVD (which can only be viewed but not edited).
>
>Trying again...
>
>Nancy Giffin wrote:
>>  Perhaps this has been covered many times, but can any video experts out
>>  there please direct me to info on how to transfer old VHS tapes to data
>  > files on a CD that can be edited in iMovie or other similar application?

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