Is there any way to transfer video from old camcorder to my pc
- Thread starter bigrash
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Assuming you have the camcorder, either:
1. Hauppage PVR-150 retail (PCI card)
2. DVD recorder (Wal-mart had one for $57 recently)
1. Hauppage PVR-150 retail (PCI card)
2. DVD recorder (Wal-mart had one for $57 recently)
Your going to need more. For capturing I suggest you get WinDVR. It can record straight into MPEG2 format. For burning. TMPGENC has some good stuff. Check out www.vcdhelp.com They have walkthroughs and everything...
The Hauppage has hardware MPEG2 encoding, and comes with software for capturing, simple editing, and for creating DVDs.
The DVD recorder is even easier to use, but doesn't offer editing.
The DVD recorder is even easier to use, but doesn't offer editing.
Two suggestions, assuming you have very few such tapes to copy.
1. Find a video copy shop to do it for you, and pay them per tape or per hour to do the work, then get the digital files from them.
2. I have a Sony Digital 8 (tape) video camera. It has a neat feature - you can play back an analog 8mm video on it no problem. The good part is, the camera has a Firewire port (Sony calls it their own name, iLink) and an always-on analog-to-digital tanslator chip. So when you play a digital OR analog video tape on it, you can connect the Firewire port to your computer and capture the whole thing! It even works backwards - you can send a digital video signal from computer to camera via Firewire and record it there (digital recoding only), or just keep on passing it through out the analog video/audio cable from the camera to an external analog VCR. The camera becomes the analog/digital interface device either way. Several Sony cameras had this feature, but not all. See if you can borrow or rent one - check the manual carefully to ensure it has this feature. Or, if you have many tapes to work with, you could even buy one. I got a used one from eBay for about $200. Model DCR-TRV460, I believe.
1. Find a video copy shop to do it for you, and pay them per tape or per hour to do the work, then get the digital files from them.
2. I have a Sony Digital 8 (tape) video camera. It has a neat feature - you can play back an analog 8mm video on it no problem. The good part is, the camera has a Firewire port (Sony calls it their own name, iLink) and an always-on analog-to-digital tanslator chip. So when you play a digital OR analog video tape on it, you can connect the Firewire port to your computer and capture the whole thing! It even works backwards - you can send a digital video signal from computer to camera via Firewire and record it there (digital recoding only), or just keep on passing it through out the analog video/audio cable from the camera to an external analog VCR. The camera becomes the analog/digital interface device either way. Several Sony cameras had this feature, but not all. See if you can borrow or rent one - check the manual carefully to ensure it has this feature. Or, if you have many tapes to work with, you could even buy one. I got a used one from eBay for about $200. Model DCR-TRV460, I believe.
Cheaper than $57? If you don't mind a few dropped frames and out-of-sync audio I have a Leadtek Winfast capture card with software-based encoding you can have for $20 shipped
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