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Best way to move camcorder recordings to PC...

Fingolfin269

Fingolfin269

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Hey guys, I have a friend who has an older model Sony handcam. The only outputs are normal RCA outputs and I really have no idea what the best solution is to move those videos to a PC for DVD burning. Do any of you have any cost efficient ideas?
 
If you are goint to be editing, the best bet is probably a large hardrive and a PCI capture or TV card with composite inputs. Use a lossless codec like huffyuv will reduce the file sizes by half without losing quality, and capture the tapes to your hardrive.

Then an editor like Pinnacle Studio that supports burn to DVD, import your footage...edit...and then burn to DVD. I've done it and it works well.

An AIW card could be a value choice since it includes all the necissary software in the box, and does a good job especially AIW9600 with their hardware filtering if you are capturing to MPEG and it supports burning from the video library using Authorscript, or from the included Pinnacle Studio.

Many other cards and software will do the job as well. Check out Videohelp.com for a bunch of good info.

 
I use a product made my Canopus called the ADVC-100.

Basically it is a small box the has S-Video, composite video, and audio inputs. It then connects to the PC via Firewire. You can plug in any analogue video source and capture the video within programs like Pinnacle Studio 9 or Adobe Premiere Elements. These programs will recognize the device as a Firewire camcorder.

The quality of the capture is very good but of course dependent on the source that you use.

An AIW card would work too, but I'm extremely pleased with my Canopus device.

HTH.

 
Originally posted by: KutterMax
I use a product made my Canopus called the ADVC-100.

Basically it is a small box the has S-Video, composite video, and audio inputs. It then connects to the PC via Firewire. You can plug in any analogue video source and capture the video within programs like Pinnacle Studio 9 or Adobe Premiere Elements. These programs will recognize the device as a Firewire camcorder.

The quality of the capture is very good but of course dependent on the source that you use.

An AIW card would work too, but I'm extremely pleased with my Canopus device.

HTH.
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Yea, something like that is a good deal also, like using the passthrough of a digital camcorder. I've used my sony camcorder to do the same thing. Its a nice solution since you use the device to to the analog to digital conversion, and you get DV to work with in the editor.
 
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