🚀 go-pugleaf

Thomas Bates <TB@notot.biz> wrote:
> 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.

you mean light right click on the files I want to burn, the say burn to 
disc?

oh wait, they don't have that functionality.