Digital Converter

Im looking to transfer some old VHSc tapes to my IMAC so I can create some home movies on DVD... I have been looking at the local stores for one and I only saw 2:

Apple sells one
Canopus ADVC-110 Advanced Digital Video Converter

El Gato Sells the
EyeTV 250

Can someone give me some advice, I still have to spend money on a VHS, and my funds are limited

Thanks

Not sure of the price on teh Canopus, but for about 100 - 140 you can get a little machine called the Neuros MPEG-4 Converter.

You hook up anything to it through RCA Yellow, Red, White, and play into it, and record with it, and it generates the analog video and audio into digital mp4 format video and audio.

It uses SD memory cards, and on the highest quality, which is more than good enough for VHS, it can do about 1 hr 10 min on 1 GB card. I use a 2GB card and switch back and forth while I transfer the video off the 1 GB to the mac and so on.

Just a suggestion.

Brian

Thanks

Vhs to DVD

I went to the mac store and bought a Pinnacle DV Bridge. Just connect your VCR via RCA or Svideo to the bridge and then connect the firewire to your mac. That's it! imovies will recoginze it and for the most part it will work the same as a mini dv camcorder

pildistort said:

I went to the mac store and bought a Pinnacle DV Bridge. Just connect your VCR via RCA or Svideo to the bridge and then connect the firewire to your mac. That's it! imovies will recoginze it and for the most part it will work the same as a mini dv camcorder

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I went to the MAC store and bought the Canopus ADVC 110 and it works great I have almost done all of our childrens movies... let me say that the combo of imovie and idvd is pretty sweet so user friendly I was really impressed...

I originally went to Bestbuy looking for a converter and the great minds of geek squad werent sure if the Pinnacle would work with MAC becuase it only says Windows... LOL

Elgato EyeTV Hybrid

I recently picked up the Elgato EyeTV Hybrid. It's about $50 less than the EyeTV 250 (so, about $200 CDN). But it does the trick. Dazzle for Mac may also be another alternative, but I've heard some bad things about the PC version, so I didn't bother.

Graegaud

macjuicy23 said:

I went to the MAC store and bought the Canopus ADVC 110 and it works great I have almost done all of our childrens movies... let me say that the combo of imovie and idvd is pretty sweet so user friendly I was really impressed...

I originally went to Bestbuy looking for a converter and the great minds of geek squad werent sure if the Pinnacle would work with MAC becuase it only says Windows... LOL

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Lol I used to work for them. They have no training in Apple products (aside from iPods) for in-store guys. I was the only one who knew anything about Apple products but then again, I only had to work on 2 in 9months.

I have the Pinnacle DV bridge and it works great for transferring all my old Hi-8 or any analog stuff.