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RE: Suggestions for VCR tape to digital converter.

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In Reply to: RE: Suggestions for VCR tape to digital converter. posted by DannyB on May 12, 2008 at 15:19:03

I've been doing this for a couple of years now. I first tried dedicated hardware (EyeTV converter) but found the digital video produced was poor. Much better quality is obtained from a simple, cheap, but time consuming process:
Play the analogue tape in a VCR which is connected to a DV camcorder with a composite video lead and record the output as required. Remove the composite video lead.
Connect the DV camcorder to a computer via DV out with a Firewire lead and play the digital tape you have recorded to import the digital video into your favourite editing program. On a Mac use iMovie which automatically picks up the digital video for import.

I have found the resultant sound quality can be very good: original analogue NICAM stereo is equivalent to FM radio. I use 16-bit sound conversion in the DV camcorder.

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