If you're trying to capture from tape, edit, then put back to tape, DV format is the way to go. You can pick up cheap stuff from any number of companies (Dazzle (http://www.dazzle.com) to Pinnacle (http://www.pinnaclesys.com/) to Canopus (http://www.canopus.com/) - in order of increasing quality and price - and there are many others). You'll be able to do pro-level stuff with any of them - some just take a little more sweat than others (more money, less sweat). For around $300 (plus a decent computer) for my personal fave, the Canopus ADVC-100 - you can be off and running.
If you try to edit via tape with anything short of a professional editing VCR ($thousands), you'll have nothing but frustration. Trust me.
Once you've got your DV movie all done, you can save it to tape, or use anything from Windows Media to Quicktime to turn it into a reasonable size file for downloading. Piece of cake.
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DV - only way to go
Date: 2003-07-09 11:14 pm (UTC)You can pick up cheap stuff from any number of companies (Dazzle (http://www.dazzle.com) to Pinnacle (http://www.pinnaclesys.com/) to Canopus (http://www.canopus.com/) - in order of increasing quality and price - and there are many others).
You'll be able to do pro-level stuff with any of them - some just take a little more sweat than others (more money, less sweat). For around $300 (plus a decent computer) for my personal fave, the Canopus ADVC-100 - you can be off and running.
If you try to edit via tape with anything short of a professional editing VCR ($thousands), you'll have nothing but frustration. Trust me.
Once you've got your DV movie all done, you can save it to tape, or use anything from Windows Media to Quicktime to turn it into a reasonable size file for downloading. Piece of cake.