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Best way to archive MiniDV Footage on Disk |
| gdi posted 2009 Oct 03 19:09 |
| I have a TRV-900 I want to retire and need a good way to archive the MiniDV tapes without quality loss. Can I do this with iMovie 9 on my iMac? Or will it convert it to a lower quality?
I will probably get Premiere Pro CS4 on my Windows machine but I was hoping to use iMovie or another quick and reliable method to save to a USB Disk. Thanks in advance! |
| minidv2dvd posted 2009 Oct 04 00:14 |
| the only format that can be considered lossless is to keep it in DVavi, the same format as on the tape. it's 13GB/hr so plan accordingly. |
| zoobie posted 2009 Oct 04 00:33 |
| and keep your tapes |
| cd090580 posted 2009 Oct 04 06:08 |
| You can also zip or rar you DV files, you can reduce significantly their size (although compression is rather slow). You can gain up to 100 MB on a 800 MB DV avi file. |
| gdi posted 2009 Oct 04 06:18 |
| Thanks, that helps.
I will obviously keep the tapes. I'll try doing a straight copy of the avi files, I am too impatient to zip them! |
| gdi posted 2009 Oct 04 08:02 |
| I ran into a problem - anyone know how I can mount the camera (firewire only) on my iMac?
I can see it and control it in iMovie, but if I import from there it will be converted to the iMovie format, right? I was hoping to just do a straight copy/archive as suggested. Thanks |
| zoobie posted 2009 Oct 05 04:35 |
| glad it's obvious to you
too bad it isn't to the others dunno about your imac maybe this bump will help |
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