Help transferring home videos

Hi everyone. I hope someone here can help with an issue I'm having. I just bought a brand new Macbook Pro to upgrade from my 2008 Macbook. I bought a USB drive and so far was able to transfer all my photos and music. I also have about 20 home videos on my old Macbook that were shot either by an iPhone of my husbands old Android. All the videos can be viewed just fine on the old laptop, however only 10 of them export onto the USB fine. The other ones for some reason cannot be played and come up just as a black screen in Quicktime. Am I doing something wrong?

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I'm new to Mac and want to the easiest method/what equipment I need to transfer tapes through a VHS recorder onto the Mac hard drive in order to edit film and eventually burn DVDs of the final edited product; also direct from video camera tape format onto Mac which I assume is pretty much the same process.
Any thoughts for a real non-tecchie? And in Noddy language please!

I was in this same boat about 3 years ago when I first got my mac, partly for this very purpose. I wanted a self contained, easy way to transfer Vhs to DVD with user friendly software. 3 years later, I'm still trying to figure it out and am finally on my way.
First, as the others mentioned, you will need a DV converter. I just bought a Canopus ADVC 110 and it works pretty slick. As the others mentioned, it is possible to use a DV camera to import the video directly to Imovie, but it sounds like in the UK you may have issues with cameras.
Another thing to consider is what software to capture the video with.
I wanted to use Imovie because it was easy and in the Mac to begin with, what I found out after many forum questions and experimenting at home was that Imovie, at least the version I have, only imports every other line of resolution of the videos. So when I captured a home movie from my video camera into IMovie and then used a software program (I used Toast) to make a DVD it looked like garbage on my TV. The verison of Imovie I have however is 08' (I think) so I'm not sure if the new version imports better quality now. I would check on that before you capture/import all your vhs into Imovie only to find out it's going to make your home movies look awful on a TV.
To combat this, I had to get Final Cut Express which I am now finally starting to learn how to use.
Once you determine how you are going to get the videos onto the Mac, either DV Converter or the right camera, then you need to decide if your Imovie will give you the right output of image quality, then burning the DVD's isn't too bad.
IDVD works pretty slick and there are videos you can watch on the Mac website that show you how to use it.
Like I said, I've used TOAST a few times and it's pretty easy and user friendly as well.
Hope this helps a little.

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A friend gave us her used iphone. We used it to take home videos and photos, and now that we synced it to our PC it has lost everything on it, and it has been replaced with the contents of our already existing iPod. In other words, all our music, photos and apps that were on our existing itunes account (used with our IPOD) etc, have been put into this used iPhone. Is there any way to get back all that stuff (mainly just want our home videos and photos back!!) Where on earth are they? Are they stored somewhere on my PC? I feel so dumb for syncing it now, and very sad for having lost my precious videos of my kids.
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Keebler wrote:
Right now, the current build of HB can not support chapter markers, but a new build is on the way with that fix.
what do you mean by this? i use handbrake and it supports chapters. do you mean it doesn't support the naming of the chapters?
MetaX allows you to do chapters as well, so that might let you name them. trial and error i guess.
Keebler wrote:
2. is MetaX the best app to type titles which will stay with the file? ie. if i made some m4vs, I can see myself sending some to my folks. if they drop it in Itunes, will the information pop up (I plan to detail the dates, places and ppl). It's a large project but worth it in the end I believe.
yes. i use MetaX and never had a problem.

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Encoding home videos for IPhone, AppleTV and IPod Touch

Hi Folks,
I'm on latest version of Compressor and FCP.
Objective: to encode home video transfers to a format that is suitable for AppleTV, IPhone and Ipod Touch - in an efficient manner (this is key)
99% of the videos would be VHS and camcorder tapes in SD format.
I mentioned efficient manner b/c I tried running and Iphone encode through the presets in Compressor for a 2 hour VHS transfer - nothing fancy, just 12 chapters. I'm on my 2009 quad mac pro with 8 GBs RAM.
The estimator through the 'share' feature said it was going to take over 3 hours before I quit. The other reason I quit is b/c it won't be compatible with AppleTV.
I created DVDs for my client so I tried handbrake using the video_Ts folder and it created an IPhone/IPod Touch file no problem - only 40 minutes. Not bad. I tried the Universal preset and QT gives me an error that the finalized file isn't compatible.
I guess my question is: does it matter quality wise, if I run through Handbrake vs compressor? For this particular client, there are 12 hours worth of videos to compress.
I know about setting up a cluster on my mac pro, but everytime I try more than 1 file in a batch, the subsequent files fail. I can't even set a cluster up with my 2006 mac pro either - yes, I've had discussions with FCP support staff and have tickets. It's a bug
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Of course, I would be charging my client for these videos, but at that length of time, I'm not sure what a feasible cost would be for both sides.
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keebler

If you are send out self contained movies to be processed in Compressor with Standard Presets (no adjustment to frame controls) you should be getting decent speed. If you want I can try encoding a two hour DV clip. How far did the encoding get before you stopped it? The estimates are not necessarily accurate at the beginning.
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Creating off the Video_TS folder is compressing compressed material, so it could (should) reduce quality when compared to encoding original source material, though based on the quality of the source it may be more academic...
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I'm using Windows 8. I have 2 folders in my videos library - movies and personal videos. When I try to import a movie into iTunes, it puts it in the Home Video section and if I import a personal video, it puts it into the home video section. what up?

Im using Win8. I originally had all my ripped movies in a movie folder listed in the videos library. This imported into iTunes movies with no issue. I later added a second folder t my library - personal videos where i put all my home videos. I was able to import this into iTunes and it showed up in "Home Movies" - very cool and exactly what I wanted. Now, if I add a new ripped movie and put it in my movie librairy and try to import it into iTunes, it places it in Home Movies. And if I put a new personal video, it will also import into iTunes under 'Home Video?. What is going on here?? Any help would be greatly appreciated - it seems like this is a bug in iTunes 11.

I thank you for the response. Apple does some assinine things sometimes and this is one of them. Ask the planet the difference between a movie and a home video and with the exception of Apple, you'd get 100% consenus on the what difference is. A home video is something that I shoot, like my kids birthday party. A movie is something I urchased either via download or a DVD that I ripped. Unbelievable! The fact that Apple has chosen not to distinguish based upon which folder I tell it is Movies and which folder is Home Videos is really hard to fathom - sounds like something Windows would do. I find it funny that in my iTunes movies sub-section of the movies section, the movie icons have a cloud icon in upper right corner to distinguish it as bought from Apple iTunes versus no cloud icon for movies that I have ripped - so the distintion was already made and clearly visible. Now - everything just defaults to "home videos" if I try to import a new ripped DVD - why even bother to have this distinction on the iTunes bar? WOW!
As for your direction, I do not understand what you are telling me - what Media Kind and what Options tab are you referring to? I see no Options tab in iTunes. Right licking on the movie icon does not yield media kind or options as well. Gping to the source file does not yield these options either.
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Best way to organize photos and home video

Looking for the optimum way to organize photos and home videos. Goal is to have all devices have equal access to all the media. Just as important is for this to be as easy as possible to maintain and use.
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Most of my library is also available outside of iPhoto, I have a back up so I could use the reference feature of iPhoto which would mean a smaller library. However we use photostream on all iOS devices which has the feature that automatically imports into iPhoto. So I don't have to worry about those photos - it's easy. But then i would have some media copied into the library and some referenced. This doesn't work for videos so I will need to copy them.
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