Looking for High Quality VHS transfer to Digital for Mac iMovie Setup
Hello,
I've been at this for three years. starting with low-end plug&play, VCR/DVD combo, then I moved up to stand alone VCR to Canopus ADVC 300 to iMovie import. The last one was obviously the best of the three, but I just know I can do better, and I'm willing to invest a decent chunk ($2000-4000), depending on how comfortable I can get prior to purchase. Couple of items of note: * These remain personal tapes. I'm not trying to make any money here, just get all this great footage stored in digital form retaining the best quality reasonably possible. * I noticed that at least for the ADVC 300, they stopped providing updates for MacOS since Lion came along, meaning I have to have a separate Snow Leopard partition just for its use these days * I'm realizing that the biggest deficiency so far has been my use of modern, low cost VCRs - I'm willing to invest - are their truly no high quality new options? * My current setup is a 4 year old Mac Pro, quad xeon, 16GB RAM. What can I go put together that will last and do a great job. As I think about this, there really seem to be likely 4 levels: Entry level plug 'n play ($50 bucks with an old vcr), next level (what I used with the canopus with my Mac, what I think I'm looking for now, and some crazy, studio level option with a price tag of a new car. Can y'all help? Best, -Ben- |
Worth noting - Obviously I don't need to spend this much - just willing - as I've read other threads on the topic, some are a bit dated or shopping lists are 2-3 years old. Wasn't sure if there is new information out there. Thx
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The Canopus ADVC DV boxes (including the 300 model) are one of the only real options. You also have Matrox MXO2 cards and Elgato cards that work well. Blackmagic Designs has some higher end cards, but they tend to be fussy on older hardware, and just more fussy in general versus the others I've mentioned, on Apple computers. Quote:
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Sincere thanks, me-lord.
Okay, I now have information I failed to stumble upon in the past. That being the mac inferiority. I count myself among the zombie masses who just assumed Macs were superior in all in ways (but knew deep down likely not the case). So...I'm up for augmenting my home compute with a Windows box. I'll revise a few questions: * Stay with XP or go ahead with 7? * Horsepower? I imagine a decent amount of processing is worthwhile, or is that more dependent on the editing function? * On that note, can I still edit with iMovie or Final Cut once I have the video imported or should I do editing through windows as well? * Further on that note, if your answer is stay with Windows, what's a good intuitive program? * Apologies - I know there's plenty in previous threads, but now that we have momentum and you know where I stand, what should I go get regarding capture device hardware (after I get windows up and running)? I'l start my VCR shopping and look forward to future input. I'm excited to at least have a very clear direction. Cheers, -bh- lordsmurf? |
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I have several dual-core and quad-core systems running Windows XP 32-bit with 4GB of RAM (registers as 3GB to 3.5GB in XP, depending on several factors). RAM isn't much of a factor past 2GB, for video work -- excluding editing that involves lots of imported assets (photos, graphics, music files, rendered CG artwork). I have either 8GB or 16GB in my Mac, too, and at least half of it sits idle at all times, excluding heavy Photoshop projects (where I've also tweaked it to use an insane amount of RAM). Quote:
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