[Dixielandjazz] Video transfers for editing old VHS

[Scott Anthony]

There are also devices like Pinnacle PC-TV that directly take any TV/DVD/VHS 
signal and records/saves it to your hard drive. I have one, and I think it 
was only about $125 a couple of years ago. I think the Mac has this 
capability built-in.

Scott Anthony

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Augustine" <ds.augustine at mail.utexas.edu>
To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 7:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Video transfers for editing old VHS


> 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
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>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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