Do you have any hints or tips on digitizing ancient vids?
I have experienced the problems you're describing. The capture device seems to make a difference. I had the best luck with my old DV camera -- I recorded the vcr tape onto a DV tape, then captured that. Seemed to work with the more difficult vids with the most dropouts. I've also used my newer (still quite old, now) Digital 8 camera, with the passthrough, and it seemed to work pretty well. I've tried to record onto DVD first, but the DVD player seems to kind of freak out at the dropouts, too. I think the DV camera method was the most forgiving because it was basically analog to analog, then digitization -- but taping it to the DV gave it new timecode. Or something. I wish I knew the real technical reasons why that worked. :(
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Re: Saving old vids
Date: 2007-02-08 12:42 pm (UTC)I have experienced the problems you're describing. The capture device seems to make a difference. I had the best luck with my old DV camera -- I recorded the vcr tape onto a DV tape, then captured that. Seemed to work with the more difficult vids with the most dropouts. I've also used my newer (still quite old, now) Digital 8 camera, with the passthrough, and it seemed to work pretty well. I've tried to record onto DVD first, but the DVD player seems to kind of freak out at the dropouts, too. I think the DV camera method was the most forgiving because it was basically analog to analog, then digitization -- but taping it to the DV gave it new timecode. Or something. I wish I knew the real technical reasons why that worked. :(