Hello,
I have Vegas Movie Studio 6.0 and DVD Architect Studio 3.0, on a WindowsXP PC. Would like to start using IEE1394 firewire to capture (copy) small DigitalHi8 tapes from a 5-year-old Sony camcorder to a hard drive (or to other media, just so I have an exact replica/copy/backup/whatever.
As an alternate way to capture...just got an inexpensive Toshiba D-R410 DVD recorder, which has a DV connector on front, to link to camcorder with firewire.
Wanted to ask for opinions on following, thanks...
1) If using PC to capture digital tapes to hard drive (separate "E:" internal drive), which Sony software should I use and what's best setting(s) to capture 100% of data (for max resolution, no compressing, downgrading, or anything). Or can/should I just use something simple like MS Movie Maker to do the capture? Do you just the camcorder and PC going for say 1-2 hours to capture the tape?
2) The Toshiba DVD recorder (altough inexpensive) has rave reviews about things like simpicity of capturing camcorder movies via firewire,direct to DVD-RW or -R. Why not do the capture using this Toshiba, seems way simpler (one of the reviewers mentioned he skipped the PC complexities and just used his Toshiba)? Any reasons this is "bad".
3) If I DID capture to the DVD-R or -R using the Toshiba, could I just "copy" the camcorder files to my hard drive (e: drive)... and have basically the same files and structure as if I had used the PC to capture the camcorder files?
4) One thing the Toshiba manual says is something like "does not copy camcorder date/time data..." This is a real problem...it's the only way I would know in future when (date/time) the video was filmed. It also means I "have" to keep the original Hi8 tapes for this. Does a camcorder-to-PC method get this date/time data?
5) Once I capture onto PC's hard drive (or Toshiba's DVD-RW or -R), can I go backwards and copy back to the camcorder to make an exact Hi8 tape of the movie (including time/date data)?
Greatly appreciate insights, I know there are many multi-page articles around, but they often seem overly detailed, so greatly appreciate the basics in layman's terms.
Thanks again,
George
I have Vegas Movie Studio 6.0 and DVD Architect Studio 3.0, on a WindowsXP PC. Would like to start using IEE1394 firewire to capture (copy) small DigitalHi8 tapes from a 5-year-old Sony camcorder to a hard drive (or to other media, just so I have an exact replica/copy/backup/whatever.
As an alternate way to capture...just got an inexpensive Toshiba D-R410 DVD recorder, which has a DV connector on front, to link to camcorder with firewire.
Wanted to ask for opinions on following, thanks...
1) If using PC to capture digital tapes to hard drive (separate "E:" internal drive), which Sony software should I use and what's best setting(s) to capture 100% of data (for max resolution, no compressing, downgrading, or anything). Or can/should I just use something simple like MS Movie Maker to do the capture? Do you just the camcorder and PC going for say 1-2 hours to capture the tape?
2) The Toshiba DVD recorder (altough inexpensive) has rave reviews about things like simpicity of capturing camcorder movies via firewire,direct to DVD-RW or -R. Why not do the capture using this Toshiba, seems way simpler (one of the reviewers mentioned he skipped the PC complexities and just used his Toshiba)? Any reasons this is "bad".
3) If I DID capture to the DVD-R or -R using the Toshiba, could I just "copy" the camcorder files to my hard drive (e: drive)... and have basically the same files and structure as if I had used the PC to capture the camcorder files?
4) One thing the Toshiba manual says is something like "does not copy camcorder date/time data..." This is a real problem...it's the only way I would know in future when (date/time) the video was filmed. It also means I "have" to keep the original Hi8 tapes for this. Does a camcorder-to-PC method get this date/time data?
5) Once I capture onto PC's hard drive (or Toshiba's DVD-RW or -R), can I go backwards and copy back to the camcorder to make an exact Hi8 tape of the movie (including time/date data)?
Greatly appreciate insights, I know there are many multi-page articles around, but they often seem overly detailed, so greatly appreciate the basics in layman's terms.
Thanks again,
George