Throw out old mini DV cassettes?

Over the years I have created a number of movies and subsequently saved these back onto the tape and then created a DVD in iDVD.
I now have 22 cassettes and 22 DVDs. The original footage has been deleted.
I presume that if I wanted another copy of one of the DVDs I could just copy it using a suitable app.
I am wondering if I really need to keep the cassettes too? If I needed to could I copy them back into iMovie? I have a hunch that I'm wasting my time keeping these old cassettes, especially as we are moving towards hard-disk cameras such as the JVC range. Any thoughts?

Ok one from the otherside of the river
I DO record over the tapes
BUT (and it's a good but )
1. import into iMovie
2. edit - but keep the original clips I don't use
3. then iDVD
4. then create 8 copies - 5 to send, 1 for home, 1 for my work, 1 for my wife's work
5. then i save iMovie and iDVD files (about 20Gb per 1hr tape) on to a 1TB (1,000GB) external drive
My biggest issue?
I simply don't want to lose my photos or movies...
You say but it's on a HD instead of a tape - big deal!
I have a 2nd 1TB external drive at work - exact copy which or 1 or 2 times per week bring home to back up the files onto
I just don't want to lose my movies or photos
This was I have a secure off-site storage "facility"
Surprisingly enough it wasn't as expensive as you might thing
Well put it this way - you've got 1 1TB drive or your tapes in the house
House burns down or it gets burgled
How much would you pay to get your movies back? in my case movies within 1hr of my first son being born..
1,000USD?
peanuts
I just did it pro-actively rather than waiting for that to happen
Anyway rant mode off but hopefully people think a bit about how much they don't want to lose their digital memories
Cheers
Jase

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Let me assume that these movies are important to you and that you want the best quality possible.
All good analog to digital video converters use Firewire. Firewire converters give much higher quality and better results.
I don't think any USB device (like Elgato) can "keep up" with a video stream, unless it uses single-field processing. This means every other horizontal line of the video is thrown out, which reduces the sharpness of the footage.
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May be anything of use in my (old) note:
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Cable
Are You sure that You are using the FireWire Cable - USB-Cable will not work for miniDV tape Cameras FireWire - Sure not using the accompany USB-Cable but bought a 4-pin to 6-pin (or 9-pin) FW one ?
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External device’s (hard disk’s)
Should be FireWire as USB/USB2 performs badly and so does Airport or Net-work connected ones too.
MUST BE - Mac OS Extended formatted - UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange - DO NOT WORK for video due to 4Gb barrier.
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Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk ? Please specify the amount of free space.
(Other hard disks don't count)
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MacBook-Air - don't
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Change to another Camera that can be used with Your Mac (no there are no miniDV tape Cameras that can)
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Any strange Plug-ins into QuickTime as Perian etc ? Remove and try again.
FileVault is off ? (hopefully)
Screen Saver - OFF
Energy Saver - OFF
Using WHAT versions ? .
Mac OS - X.5.4 ?
QuickTime version ? (This is the heart in both iMovie and FinalCut)
iMovie’08 (7.1.?), 09 or 11 ?
iMovie HD 6 (6.0.4/3) ?
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Use another Camera. There where tape play-back stations from SONY
but they costed about 2-4 times a normal miniDV Camera.
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(HAS TO BE Mac OS Extended formatted - USB/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange WILL NOT DO)
(Should be a FireWire one - USB/USB2 performs badly)
from LKN 1935.
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from Karsten.
in addition to Bengt's excellent '9 yards of advice' ..
camera set to 'Play' , not rec/computer/etc.?
camera not on battery, but power-line?
did your Mac 'recognize' this camera before...?
a technical check.
connect camera, on, playback, fw-connected...
click on the Blue Apple, upper left of your screen ..
choose 'About . . / More . .
under Firewire.. what do you read . . ?
More
FileVault - Secure that it’s turned off
Network storage - DOESN’T WORK
Where did You store/capture/import Your project ?
External USB hard disk = Bad Choice / FireWire = Good
If so it has to be Mac OS Extended formatted
----> UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange is NOT Working for VIDEO !
mbolander
Thanks for all your suggestions. What I learned is that I had a software problem. I had something called "Nikon Transfer" on my Mac that was recognizing my Canon camcorder as a still camera and was preventing iMovie from working properly. After un-installing Nikon Transfer and doing a reboot, everything worked great.
I never liked the Nikon Transfer software anyway--I guess I'll get a cheap card reader and use that to transfer photos in the future.
No Camera or bad import
USB hard disk
Network storage
File Vault is on
jiggaman15dg wrote
if you have adobe cs3 or 4 and have the adobe bridge on close that
or no firewire will work
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The problem was the external backup hard drive that is connected, you need to disconnect the external drive before the mac can see the video camera.
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//support.sony-europe.com/tutorials/dime/videotransfer/vtransfer.aspx site=odw_en_GB&sec=DVH&m=HDR-HC7E
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This worked perfectly for me. Took me 2 days to find out. Could not find any clear thread explaining what I had to do on the camera and the manual was not clear either.
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