[GlobalNomad]

I need to be able to edit some video I am going to shoot.

The camera that I am using uses a VHS format, if I have one of thoes little analog to digital thingos that convert VHS => Digital, is it then easy to edit the fotage in iMove?

The fotage that has just been converted to digital are you able to edit it easlily.

Advice / Help would be great.

[FXWizard]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by GlobalNomad:
<strong>I need to be able to edit some video I am going to shoot.

The camera that I am using uses a VHS format, if I have one of thoes little analog to digital thingos that convert VHS =&gt; Digital, is it then easy to edit the fotage in iMove?

The fotage that has just been converted to digital are you able to edit it easlily.

Advice / Help would be great.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Once you've converted the footage to DV format you can bring it into iMovie and edit the same way you'd edit footage shot with a DV camera; the only problem might come if the converter uses USB and not FireWire to move the data onto the Mac, since USB solutions usually give poorer quality.

<small>[ 07-18-2002, 08:00 PM: Message edited by: FXWizard ]</small>

[GlobalNomad]

If I were to purchase one of these firewire (thingos ) which one would you sujest?

- Would it not only be able to convert analog fotage but could it convert say fotage straight from the TV.

-When it imports it is it in scences or is it in one big scene?

[nitram_again]

It would import in one big file. Scenes are detected by iMovie because they are put there by DV cameras when recording. VHS doesn't have this.

Here's a review of some of these:
<a href="http://www.simplydv.co.uk/miglia/dircut_t2.html" target="_blank">review for the Miglia</a>

<a href="http://www.simplydv.co.uk/Background/analog_conv.html" target="_blank">review for Dazzle and Formac</a>

<a href="http://www.simplydv.co.uk/advc100.html" target="_blank">review for Canopus ADVC-100</a>

<small>[ 07-19-2002, 09:51 AM: Message edited by: nitram_again ]</small>