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re: vcr - dvd recorder
Better, and possibly better help is all I needed to hear. I'll definitely give it some tough tapes, so that's where this should be useful.
But I am not doing "real" editing I guess. One tape produces a hundred clips or so, so I have to splice all those, possibly shave a few frames off each end and every once in a while I cut out the middle of a clip (then just do a quickie fade transition or something like that from segment to segment).
A friend suggested that maybe I could just transfer straight to mpeg-2, but I had some capture device that did that once and I was left with this problem: I "edited" every clip and then still had to re-render them. That and the quality didn't look as good as just grabbing the clips in DV. Could have been the other device I was using though (name escapes me right now).
Anyway, if you have a dvd recorder suggestion, I'm all ears. After I transfer all the clips on a tape, I do plan on just transfering it to dvd (as historical backup) and then ditching the tape. They're just taking up too much space.
re: PC
Perhaps I'll just get a beefier proc and machine when I can.
re: wires
I learned my lesson a bit with these. I was getting awful audio at one point and the fix was better wires needed. However, I went through a set. They just stopped working, except the video. I use that along with Monster audio cables that are barely long enough. When I get the new VCR I guess I shouldn't need anything other than the s-video cable I have along with my audio wires. I might look for a new s-video cable, mine is a bit thin.
re: capture/transfer device
That's what I was thinking - try improving closer to the source and move on from there (was thinking that from all the great stuff on the front of the site). I'll see what comes from the new VCR and then maybe the TBC.
Thanks for all the pointers [img]smileys/smiley4.gif[/img]
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