MiniDV to hard drive (how to do it right)?

[cosmoscorbin]

I have 7 hours of mini DV footage that I am trying to dump to my hard drives, 2 7200rpm 120 GB drives... I tried to go directly through my cannon XLR1 into Final Cut pro, but because there are many timecode breaks in the tape it wanted to split the file into all sorts of pieces. After finishing all the cuts and the resaving the file as one peice, it took me about 5 hours to do just one tape. People have given me several suggestions but I am not quite sure what to do... should I find a miniDV deck? Should I try to use Imovie... What is the easiest way to dump that much footage onto hard drives from the XLR1 without loosing quality or having it take 5 hours a tape... (with putting slices back together again)...

thanks!

cosmos

[runvt]

Its a common problem with non linear editors, no problem on linear providing you record sufficent pre roll.

Non linear is based on film production ie you think you rehearse and mark each scene

You chose the takes to match the script and you capture them and edit.

You seem to be into quantity not quality and you have been bitten.

There is software that will let you view each take select the good ones and it will then produce a shot list which the edit software will import.

welcome to the new world
If you go to my site www.videovault.freeserve.co.uk there is a picture of the first VT I edited on weighed nearly a ton and did not have time code problems as it was not invented
Trevor Brown

[atifsh]

funny the answer comes after 2 years.........
i almost write the answer then realized the date.......

[Lone_Wolf]

Better late than never since the Forum has been invented to satisfy our curiousity too.

Take care