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I have a Macbook Pro late 2008, using OS 10.5. I have a Sony DCR-TRV460 with about 50 Hi8 tapes from the first 5 years of my kids' lives. I now want to put all that footage on a large hard disk drive for storage and future editing possibilities, mostly because these tapes are now 10-20 years old, and I just want to get them digitized before they start to have problems, despite storing them properly. I also have a Canopus 110, and an external 1TB drive.
What I did last night was hook up the Canopus 110 to the external drive, and the drive to my Macbook. I opened iMovie 8, and it immediately came up with an import screen recognizing the Canopus 110 (which perhaps I don't really need as the Sony camera is a digital videocam...but the camera used to record these Hi8 tapes was not, it was an analog Sony...a little confused here).
Anyway, I tried just using the iMovie's standard capture, and when I looked on the external drive, I saw several files, with extensions I did not recognize. So, I re-captured, and this time changed the format to .avi, and now have a 24GB file for about 6 minutes of footage...good gosh. And, when I view this in Quicktime on my 15" screen, it just looks okay, not great. I wonder what this would look like if I were to edit it, code it into MPEG2, burn it on a DVD, and watch it on my HDTV...my sense is it would suck. I have also heard .avi, while lossless, is not a great format to work with, like importing a 24GB file into Final Cut Express to edit, or perhaps multiple 24GB files, synch problems, etc.
So, the questions is, in what format should I capture the Hi8 video for storage and future editing?
I have a Macbook Pro late 2008, using OS 10.5. I have a Sony DCR-TRV460 with about 50 Hi8 tapes from the first 5 years of my kids' lives. I now want to put all that footage on a large hard disk drive for storage and future editing possibilities, mostly because these tapes are now 10-20 years old, and I just want to get them digitized before they start to have problems, despite storing them properly. I also have a Canopus 110, and an external 1TB drive.
What I did last night was hook up the Canopus 110 to the external drive, and the drive to my Macbook. I opened iMovie 8, and it immediately came up with an import screen recognizing the Canopus 110 (which perhaps I don't really need as the Sony camera is a digital videocam...but the camera used to record these Hi8 tapes was not, it was an analog Sony...a little confused here).
Anyway, I tried just using the iMovie's standard capture, and when I looked on the external drive, I saw several files, with extensions I did not recognize. So, I re-captured, and this time changed the format to .avi, and now have a 24GB file for about 6 minutes of footage...good gosh. And, when I view this in Quicktime on my 15" screen, it just looks okay, not great. I wonder what this would look like if I were to edit it, code it into MPEG2, burn it on a DVD, and watch it on my HDTV...my sense is it would suck. I have also heard .avi, while lossless, is not a great format to work with, like importing a 24GB file into Final Cut Express to edit, or perhaps multiple 24GB files, synch problems, etc.
So, the questions is, in what format should I capture the Hi8 video for storage and future editing?
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