Did I goof up....How to get home movie off DVD?

wildbill001 wrote on 12/27/2004, 3:33 PM

My son's wedding was filmed in Hi8. I asked the person who did it to put it on a DVD as I don't have a Hi8 camera anymore. I figured it would be no problem to get it into the computer and edit it. Admittedly, I have not tried to do this before. Did I goof up here? I don't see an option to import into Movie Studio.

I have a capture card (Hauppauge PVR-250) so if push-comes-to-shove, I can hook up the DVD player and capture that way.

Any help, suggestions, etc. would be greatly appreciated.

Bill W

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ScottW wrote on 12/27/2004, 3:35 PM

MPEG is a hard format to edit with because it's so compressed. Search this forum and the Vegas Video forum with a keyword of VOB and you'll find lots of discussions on how to do this.

Last time I needed to do this I took the easy way out and re-captured the output from my DVD player.

wildbill001 wrote on 12/28/2004, 9:07 AM

DOH! Searched for VOB and was "slapped up side the head" with VirtualDub. Downloaded the VirtualDubMod and am busily converting to AVI.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Bill

JamesMessick wrote on 1/2/2005, 1:40 PM

Easiest way is to get the videographer to make you a data dvd with the raw files on it. Best quality that way, too.

Steve Grisetti wrote on 1/3/2005, 6:48 AM

Or, of course, borrow, rent or buy a Sony digital8. All but the lowest end model will play Hi8 (and regular 8mm) tapes, and you can port them right into the computer as DV-AVIs through a firewire connector.