VCR to Mac Did this with DV; now I own Hard drive camera; methods?
Hello,
I previously owned a DV, tape-based, video camera. It was good but it broke. I regularly used it to transfer VHS tapes to the DV camera, then from the DV camera to the PC (now a Mac!...yeah!).
I've replaced that camera with the Canon HF100, a hard-drive based camera that requires me to use imovie-08. I have more VHS tapes that I'd like to transfer to the MAC so I may ultimately make DVDs out of the material.
As best I can tell, the Canon camera does not allow for input from external devices...output only. Correct me if I'm wrong.
So I'm wondering if there is a way to use Imovie 08 or a previous version, to transfer VHS tapes using a VCR, or the Canon camera, directly to the Mac. Is there a piece of hardware that does this?
Thanks for your time.
Several options:
Canopus makes Digital Analog Converters that will convert VHS output to DV.
ElGato EyeTV makes the EyeTV Hybrid that will convert VHS output to MPEG2, which can be further processed in the EyeTV software to DV or h.264 for editing in iMovie.
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