checked around and couldnt find recent posts.have mini dv tapes and some vhs-c. looking to get into imovie. my last mini dv camcorder died and cant seem to find 1 to use for importing movies. short of buying used 1 and hoping it actually works, does anyone know of a company that rents out a minidv player ? or any other ideas on how to import video.checked around, no one i know has 1 to borrow, thanks
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If you live in or near a tourist-oriented town, there should be some places that rent video cameras to tourists. I used to live in Orlando, there were nearly as many such places as there were Starbucks. 
If you're really desperate you can take the tapes to a video-conversion service and they'll do it for a fee (often quite reasonable, like $20 per hour of tape converted). You could also just hunt down a replacement mini-DV camera on Fleabay or Craigslist et al, probably pretty cheap.
If you're really desperate you can take the tapes to a video-conversion service and they'll do it for a fee (often quite reasonable, like $20 per hour of tape converted). You could also just hunt down a replacement mini-DV camera on Fleabay or Craigslist et al, probably pretty cheap.
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