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In article <k4n6cc$arn$1@reader1.panix.com>,
 Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> wrote:

> 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.

98% of the errors, like not being able to burn a disk, happen between the KB and 
Chair Seat. Burning a CD/DVD on a Mac is trivial.
-- 
Yours,
Tom