Capturing Advice

hey everybody!
usually I just ''capture now" then edit. but now I have about 25 1hour mini dv tapes playing back on a dv deck thru a canopus 110....the footage is just forums so I don't care so much about losing quality, and I don't need all the footage I just want some highlites from each tape. Problem is, as we know, I cannot hear the audio during capture to determine what points I want to capture. I really don't want all 25 hours of footage eating up my external hd space. Is there anyway or another way to be able to hear the discussions and just capture those parts? I also have imovie hd/and the latest versions of Imovie if that matters.
Any thoughts? I have a feeling there is no way to do this. Thanks for any help!

hi tom....what exactly do you mean? If you mean using the camera audio, I am not using a camera, I am using a playback deck and hence no sound from that. should I use a tv monitor would that work?

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Capture Preset: DV NTSC 48kHz
Not a forum expert here, however I completed a very similar project your are describing here. Very tedious and had its issues and challenges.
Here are a few things you should think about. One of the big issues with VHS format is that it is analog and has no timecode as found on modern dv tape based and file based cameras. Is this important to you? To me it was a big factor in utilizing it with other NLE suites down the road.
What I did was to capture/record each hour of vhs to minidv tape to create an archival copy with timecode and 48khz audio, then capture with FCP. In addition to timecode and ability to cleanly log and transfer clips, the audio track will be compatible upon capture in FCP. Batch Capturing of non digital tape may (or "will" is a better term here) create audio drift and other audio issues.
I would recommend doing the same with the Hi8 tapes.
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Hello
I need some advise with the capturing process of a documentary project.
The circunstances: I have shot with Sony A1 in HD 1080 50i quality, so I have my video in Mini DV tapes and I going to use FCP 6.05 to edit the project.
I have 12 tapes to capture and 1T hard disk space in an external disk with e-sata conection.
First doubt: format
As I see it I have two options when capturing. whether I can capture in SD or in HDV, what do you recomend?
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The matter is..., I have been told is it is better to work in native format, the best quality possible, always you can...
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