[Tiffany Mac]

I wasn't sure where to post this. Maybe some of you know.

My brother is going to be on TV thursday and he wants me to get that video footage on the computer. How do i do it?

I can record it to VHS, but then how would i do it?

Can you hook up the camera directly to the TV?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

-Tiffany

[mattyd]

some DV camcorders have a video in jack.

so after you record the TY show to VHS, you would connect the video out jacks on the VCR to the video in jack on a camcorder (assuming you have one) and record to the DV tape.

there are also stand-alone "media converters" but i don't know anything about them.

hope this helps.

[sahara]

Well you don't even have to record onto the camera. Doing so would lose a generation in quality. Instead, you can hook your VCR directly into your computer.
Take the audio and video out jacks of the VCR and run the RCA cables into a media converter. The converter will convert the RCA cable from the VCR into a firewire cable which will plug into your computer (assuming you have firewire). Converter boxes can run anywhere from a couple hundred dollars, to thousands. Your other option is a video capture card that comes with standard RCA jacks already, enabling you to go directly from the VCR to the computer without any need for a converter.
If you go to a computer store, they can help you find a capture card, but you'd have to go to an electronics store for the converter box. The only other option is to go to a video post house and have them transfer it to a hard drive for you. Good luck!

[scottiB]

My cable box had RCA outs (yellow, white, and red) that I plug into my Canon ZR-10 (miniDV camera). I also can plug the camera into my VCR outs (the signal passes through) and record onto the camera.

Use with iMovie--slice and dice...

[spectre]

I'd just hook up a dv camera to your VCR, and then record from the VCR onto your dv camera. Most cameras seem to have this function, although finding out how to do it can often be a pain.

Then... you could just hook up the DV camera to your computer via firewire, and proceed to import it using iMovie. Loosing quality has never been a big issue for me doing this... VHS isn't exactly high quality anyways.

[tooki]

If you are recording off a cable box, take its AV outputs (if available) and use them to record straight to DV (using either a DV camera or an analog/DV converter). Otherwise, use your VCR's AV outputs, but record using the DV (as with a cable box), not using VHS!

Sahara: there is NO DIFFERENCE between recording to DV tape and playing back out to the computer, as opposed to using a media converter (or camera in that function). This is because DV video is stored on the tape in DV format... there is only one conversion going on: analog to DV. Whether the DV video is stored on tape is irrelevant, because it is stored digitally.

tooki

[tooki]

Originally posted by Tiffany Mac:

I wasn't sure where to post this. Maybe some of you know.

How about the Digital Video and Audio forum!

tooki