But just about anything will get the video onto the HD in good or original quality. Its media management is far superior to any iMove version if you have many tapes. The choice of capture software may be more based on media management, the reason I went for FCP. Decent quality DVT tape seems to last forever. You may want to store away those mini-DVT as a backup. Not all mini-DV cameras have pass through capability. There are several inexpensive analog capture devices about which are easier to use than a mini-DV in pass through. You will have to manually label the file with date and time information.įor Hi-8 tapes, I used a hi-8 deck or camera fed into a capture box. Your mini-DVT will be saved on the hard drive without loss, the mini-DVT camera or recorder would have compressed the video before laying down the digital track. So your capture needs to be setup to not stop on breaks, if thats not what you want. Otherwise the tape could have several segments and the time code would be referenced to the beginning of each segment, and you will get individual files for each segment. There were no date/time capabilities with the cameras I was using. When imported/captured into iMovie or FCP, they came through with time codes referenced to the beginning of the tape. When I recorded mini-DVT, I pre-recorded the tape, rewound and then then recorded. I had near 200 tapes, it was a long process. Its been years since I copied all my mini-DVT, Hi-8, and VHS video tape to hard drives.
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