I have decided that I won't transfer my own projects to work on in FCE4. Is anyone aware of a service in New England near Ct. that will do this for me? It can be a private person also. Thanks in advance. HV20>dvd in highest resolution possible.
Service that transfers hv20>dvd in NE
I have decided that I won't transfer my own projects to work on in FCE4. Is anyone aware of a service in New England near Ct. that will do this for me? It can be a private person also. Thanks in advance. HV20>dvd in highest resolution possible.
There are DVD player/recorders with Firewire input (I have one by Philips).
Just connect your camera, choose DV as input source, and start recording your tape onto DVD.
Takes just one hour per one-hour tape...
Buying such a DVD player/recorder is probably cheaper than outsourcing the work.
EDIT: See post #4 below...
Last edited by Janke; 2010 January 26th at 03:32.
A DVD will hold about 20 minutes of footage from the HV20. This means 15 tapes will occupy 45 DVDs. Even then it may be surprisingly difficult to get the .m2t files from the DVDs into FCE4. To save time and frustration have someone else capture the tapes directly to a portable hard disk using FCE4.Originally Posted by antoniosolo
Last edited by ejolson; 2010 January 26th at 03:25.
"HV20>dvd"
Ah, the OP's question was a bit ambiguos - so maybe he wants to transfer his material as editable files, not as DVD-quality video, as I assumed?
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Yes correct, as editable files Janke....
Hmmm... that doesn't sound like a very efficient way of doing it to me. In fact, it sounds like a downright inefficient way to do it (both in time and money). Why are you not just doing it yourself? You have to deal with all sorts of problems going the route you want to do it. First, you have to pay someone to do this for you. Then you get files that don't natively transfer into FCE (or even FCP for that matter) and you have to convert them. The time you'd spend doing all of that will be significantly more than the hour you'd have to spend transferring a full tape of video yourself. You'd likely end up spending more than you would on a good hard drive (if a lack of external HDD is your problem).
ejolson's suggestion was definitely the best. Have someone else transfer (using FCE or iMovie) the files to an external drive. It'll most likely be cheaper and definitely much less time-consuming.
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Fine....to my external drive. Any idea of a place that does this? I searched CL and sent an email with no luck yet. Maybe a student in college could do it.....I don't want to hassle with it and will keep the hours down on my camera.
Last edited by antoniosolo; 2010 January 26th at 12:54. Reason: typo
You'll want to make sure that the person transferring the video also has an HV series camera. A college student is probably your best bet for something like this. My college used HV series cameras so you may get lucky there.
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Keep the hours down? How many hundred tapes do you have?
I was in the same boat, I have a HV 20 with about 40 tapes to back up. I was going to go the DVD route. With rendering times to convert to AVCD and only getting 20 mins of video on a DVD I said forget that. So I purchased a Thermaltake BlacX ST0005U $19.00 with rebate. A 1tb HD $79.00. I hook up my camcorder to the firewire port on my laptop, hook up the BlacX to my eSATA port, and use HDV Split to capture. I put in a tape and walk away for a hour. I try to capture 1 to 2 tapes a day. If somebody was to do this I would think they would charge more than $100.00?
But if time does not permit, you have no choice but to hire somebody. Good Luck
I am on Mac so hdv split won't help me. My laptop is a pc but 2.1mhz and I don't think it will keep up but I am going to download HDV Split and see. Thanks for the advice, maybe someone else can do HDV Split for me though on a faster machine.
HDV Split will work fine on your computer. I have a 1.5 GHz G4 and it handles it just fine. My 1.5 GHz laptop would be able to handle it fine as well.
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I don't want to sound flippent, but how much do you figure your time is worth that you can't be bothered digitizing your footage. Also you are using an HV20, what are you worried about the heads for. Its an amazing cam for the money, but throw away technology, when it wears out you throw it away. We're not talking about saving heads on an A1 or H1. Lets get real here, the service you are asking for is worth at least $50 an hour or per tape a legit business probably closer to $100. A student ethically could not use school equipment to make money on the side.
Just suck it up and do it yourself. Here's a good motivator, each time you do a tape stick $20 in a jar for the new flash drive camera it sounds like you really want. Pay yourself to do the work knowing that it would be at least double to get someone else to do it.
This one always bugs me. DV/HDV (digital video) is already digital, even though it's on a tape. You're not digitizing it, you're simply copying (or possibly transcoding) it.
Good point, I hadn't really thought my comment through. I supposed a student could ask for permission from the dept chair, though.A student ethically could not use school equipment to make money on the side.
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I'm old school, you digitize tape. yes dv hdv is already digital but it is not as simple as copying to the hard drive. The tape has to play out in real time, and the capturing computer has to read, re-encode the data stream in its own variant of the codec in real time, this doesn't always happen flawlessly.
A format such as digibeta or hdcam is also digital but you still have to digitize it as sony wont release the native codec to editing software.
cheap!
I am incredibly cheap and if it lasted a lifetime providing the performance it does without another drop of investment besides tape I would feel like a king, that's why. I don't use plastic, only paper.
http://www.hv20.com/showthread.php?p=267936#post267936
Last edited by ejolson; 2010 January 31st at 21:32.
Cheap
That's a salemans pitch...plus administration and collections and blah blah blah....being content with what you have is what salespeople HATE to hear. I am not moved by this arithmetic....
You're incredibly cheap, but you're willing to pay for someone else's time, plus media and shipping to capture your footage for you?
You already own FCE, right? I'm very confused.
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Frustration is very very expensive so I am happy to ask for help and maybe help someone defray their costs as well.
Really?
Wow, Antonio I'm not sure why everyone is giving you such a hard time. I would be happy to help you with the transfer. Just call me 208-546-9751
-Dave Parsons
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Hard times, that was a FATBOYS hook from long ago. Thanks Dave I will call you.
It is not so much giving hard times. I guess it is just non-understanding and wondering (at least on my part).
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