"Newps" wrote in message
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Doug Semler wrote:




Wow. Why don't you suggest he converts it to BetaMax while he's at it?
Better suggestion, hook the VCR directly to a video capture card on a
computer or a DVD recorder...Not all camcorders are "digital" you know.


That's ridiculous. The VCR out is analog. If you've ever had your
computer convert analog video to digital you know how long the process
takes. And how many people have an analog video capture card in their PC?
With a digital camcorder you'll need a firewire card, commonly known as an
IEEE 1394. Lots of computers have those as they serve other purposes.
The digital camcorder, and they're all digital nowadays, does the
converting on the fly.


I do it all the time, on a 1.7Ghz machine with a $120 video capture card
with a hardware encoder. It takes 3 seconds longer than it does to play the
source being digitized. Digitizing a 10 minute tape would take me 10
minutes 3 seconds direct to computer. Longer if you go to the cam corder
first. No matter how you slice it, the digitizing isn't the time consuming
part, it's the playback of the analog source

I question the recommendation to "get" a digital camcorder for $400 (those
with line-in recording functions) when a $100 video capture card (with
hardware encoder *and* editing software) would be better tools for the
job...

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Doug Semler, MCPD
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