- #MINI DV CONVERTER TO COMPUTER WITHOUT CAMERA MOVIE#
- #MINI DV CONVERTER TO COMPUTER WITHOUT CAMERA ARCHIVE#
- #MINI DV CONVERTER TO COMPUTER WITHOUT CAMERA SOFTWARE#
- #MINI DV CONVERTER TO COMPUTER WITHOUT CAMERA MAC#
The disadvantage is that MPEG-2 isn't quite as efficient as H.264, altough at higher bitrates like you will most likely use the difference is somewhat harder to see. This has several potential advantages, one is that many MPEG-2 encoders and DVD-Video authoring programs already have presets for miniDV sources and will ensure a pretty seamless conversion, and secondly you could simply burn discs to give to relatives, and they could watch them in a stink normal DVD player on their TVs without any techy mumbo-jumbo.
One alternative would be to transcode the tapes to MPEG-2, and then make DVD-Videos from them. Also make sure not to change the image size, frame rate and pixel aspect ratio, because any of those things can cause the transcoded material to look from suboptimal to downright horrible. But, in that case, you really need to pay much attention to how you transcode the material, in particular the transcode settings: for instance, your miniDV material is interlaced, but most encoder presets are designed for progressive material. If the 13 GB / tape is a problem, then transcoding to H.264 would be the best next thing, savings of up to 10 to 1 should be possible without severe quality loss.
#MINI DV CONVERTER TO COMPUTER WITHOUT CAMERA SOFTWARE#
These files are currently so universally supported in both players and editing software that it is unlikely they will stop being supported in the mid-term, and you get to keep them at the best quality possible. miniDV tape will take about 13 GB of HDD space when transfered in its native format (a DV stream packed in an AVI container on a PC, or a MOV container if on Mac, or more rarely a raw DV file). Of course, it depends on what you mean with "tons" of tapes - a 60 Min.
#MINI DV CONVERTER TO COMPUTER WITHOUT CAMERA ARCHIVE#
If you just intend to archive it, then I'd personally suggest not transcoding the material - as you rightly guessed, miniDV is already digital, and already compressed (at least the video is, audio is uncompressed), so an extra transcoding step will degrade quality. Some think the pain is worth the gain - few want to watch hours of wackly random family shots, but cut just the best parts together with a bit of music and a few titles in a half hour movie, and things start to look far more interesting.
#MINI DV CONVERTER TO COMPUTER WITHOUT CAMERA MAC#
If you intend to edit the material (which would most likely make it more viewable for the relatives.), then you might hit the limits of the built-in software (at least on a PC, on a Mac iMovie is pretty full-featured), and you will want to look at something like Premiere Elements or Vegas, depending on how much effort you are willing to invest in learning the software and then editing your home movies. Simply connect the camera via a Firewire cable, start the software and start capturing.
#MINI DV CONVERTER TO COMPUTER WITHOUT CAMERA MOVIE#
If you have a modern PC or Mac with an IEEE1394/Firewire connection, then you are good to go, you can transfer the tapes just using built-in software (in Windows for instance Windows Movie Maker). I'm also not sure where the tradeoff of quality vs space lies and would love some input from someone who has an authoritative opinion on the matter.ġ) Physical process: what's the best way to actually extract the video from the camcorder? Do I need special software? In other words, I believe it's *already* digital, but I have no idea what format or if I should transcode into something like H.264. I haven't been able to find much that reliably explains the miniDV format. So the question to you, wise Arsians, is what's the best practice in bringing the video over for archival purposes? I don't have unlimited storage space, but I do want to maintain fairly good quality. I'm also concerned about my aging Sony DCR TRV-11 and the fact that if it dies, I'll have no easy way to view them, short of buying another miniDV camcorder, which seems borderline idiotic.
I've got tons of family home video sitting on MiniDV tapes that never gets viewed or shared with relatives because of the inconvenient format. I searched, but couldn't find much on this.
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