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Gear / Technical Help => Photo / Video Recording => Topic started by: firmdragon on November 30, 2017, 03:48:20 PM
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Hey guys, Ive been out of the game for a while. Recently found some time and want to back up some old tape media lying around. I think i normally did this with virtualdvhs back in the day. Now I think Ive settled on iMovie and it's saving as .dv files. Is that the highest quality I can get or can I do better? Looking for free/lightweight (i'm doing this on a 2k9 mac :) ) solutions for mac if it's not. TIA!
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I only had a couple but I connected a handheld mini-DV recorder via firewire and used iMovie to import. There is a program which theoretically simplifies the process-
https://www.lifeflix.com
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I have done it like mentioned above as well.
Camcorder > iMovie via FireWire, both 400 and 800
It will capture in .dv at 2 go for every 10 minutes.
Depending on your iMovie, you may be able to select 4:3 or 16:9 to match the source. At one point though I believe they 16:9 wasn't an option
If your Mac doesn't have fw you may be able to do USB with a in between device.