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barbie gee <booger@nosespam.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 5 Oct 2012, Cydrome Leader wrote:
> 
>> barbie gee <booger@nosespam.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Anybody have/use one that they can recommend?
>>>
>>> This would be to grab video off of an older camcorder, to a PC.
>>>
>>> I don't know a thing about this stuff, other than it's some cables, some
>>> drivers, and maybe some software to get the job done.  And, some of the
>>> low end devices capture at only a really low resolution.
>>>
>>> tia.
>>
>> If the tapes can leave your sight, I can read them, no matter how they
>> were written. I have one of the coveted Sony DVMC-DA2 boxes.
> 
> The good news:
> We went out and got a 4-pin to 6-pin Firewire cable for $13.
> My Vista machine already had the latest version of Movie Maker on it, and 
> we imported almost 2 hours of video.  We now have 1 yooge AVI file and a 
> batch of smaller ones.  For some reason, Movie Maker was able to "auto 
> split" one of the tapes better than the other..  Probably less obvious 
> breaks in the filming in one of them.
> 
> The bad news:
> Now I have to babysit my dear (older) sister through the editing of almost 
> 2 hours of video!  Then we have to figure get it onto one DVD, preferably. 
> No idea how much compression Movie Maker will do to ~16Gb of AVI to make 
> it a "playable" DVD.  Any ideas?
> 
> I'm actually having fun with this, and find that you can learn almost 
> anything, in under 10 minutes, on youtube.

plus windows makes it easy.

I still have to google t figure out how to burn data to an optical disk on 
a fucking mac.