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Video Transfer and Conversion

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SphincterBoy

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I have a three dozen miniDV video tapes I want to get onto my computer in order to edit them. Can anyone recommend a card to enable uploading and software for editing?
 
Firewire card would be the best way. I think the last one I used was based on an NEC chip.

I use Adobe Premiere Pro. You can get Premiere Pro CS2 for free from Adobe since they disabled the activation servers for that version, just google it and you should find the info and page.

You can also rent the latest version for $20/mo, so just rent it for 1 month and do your capture and edits, then cancel.

I haven't used any other programs so I can't recommend anything else, well I could recommend Edius Neo as I have that and used it for a couple of days, it was easy to use but I was so used to Premiere Pro.
I got it for free in a raffle at a convention.
 
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hey what kind of recordings you have? hd or sd? if you have standard defintion you maybe check i can suggest some old ati hardware, hd 600 usb or colossus hauppauge it comes with some kind of tbt [time base corrector], they give you better quality. also you can check videohelp there its lot of sources,
 
I actually bought a "player" that was specifically made to do what you want. Worked great, solid it when done.
 
The camcorder is 15 years old so the video is in SD. I bought a firewire card (~$20) and used Sony's software to download the video as AVI files, which I plan to convert to MP4 using Movavi unless anyone has recommendations for better software or a preferable file format.
 
Try Handbrake for conversion as well, and see what does a better job.
You may want to try the Deinterlace setting to make it look a bit better.
 
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