[milf]

I was recently on a TV show. I recorded it on my VCR and am looking for the easiest way to pop the recording onto DVD and then convert it to a format that could be streamed from my website. Is there a simple approach to this that I should consider before handing over my video and my cash to a professional service in the area? Getting the show put onto DVD wouldn't cost me much more than $40 (or so it seems from their website).

Thanks for any input.

[Uncle Skeleton]

you'll never get the hardware to do it yourself for less than $100, and that will be mediocre hardware at best (half frame, USB). Actually, how much does the EyeTV cost? but then at least you'll have the hardware for the future...

[Nap]

Originally posted by Uncle Skeleton:
you'll never get the hardware to do it yourself for less than $100, and that will be mediocre hardware at best (half frame, USB). Actually, how much does the EyeTV cost? but then at least you'll have the hardware for the future...

I have to take issue with your assessment of USB captured video. I have been using such a device for three years and I could show you video made with it that look as good full-screen as the samples of DV I have seen in the iMovie tutorial. The only difference is that you can't sit 3 feet from a 17 inch monitor and expect to see good looking full screen video from it. Back off to 5 feet and full screen scaled by QT Player from Sorenson3 or 3ivx 320x240 looks as good as a TV set at that distance. For that matter, if I move to 3 feet from my TV set the image looks about like the QT Player full-scale image at that distance. By the way, you can get an Interview device, VideoShop 4.5 and drivers for both OS8.6 to 9.x and OSX for about $75 dollars now. As I recall it was an ad from Daystar Technologies on this site that I saw that price.

[midwinter]

Originally posted by milf:
I was recently on a TV show. I recorded it on my VCR and am looking for the easiest way to pop the recording onto DVD and then convert it to a format that could be streamed from my website. Is there a simple approach to this that I should consider before handing over my video and my cash to a professional service in the area? Getting the show put onto DVD wouldn't cost me much more than $40 (or so it seems from their website).

Thanks for any input.

There's a little $70 dongle you can use to capture from videotape via USB. They work fine for what you want to do.

Here's the link to the Belkin one in MacMall: click.

I had a similar one for a long time when I first started messing around with video capture, and it did just fine. I then moved up to a Dazzle DV-Bridge, and then down/across to an Eye TV, which has been the best computer product I've paid money for in a long time.

Cheers
Scott