As noted in another thread, you don't need to process those files if you capture them with Quicktime 7. The most recent issue of MacLife explains how to use Quicktime as a movie editor – so you don't have to spend time processing the movies through iMovie. For conversion to the correct format, try to find VisualHub – which, for my money, is the best video converter program out there. But MPEG Streamclip and ElGato also work.
Invest in a Canopus Firewire capture device ($200) if you are really serious about doing this. As a professional archivist with a digitization business that works round the clock digitizing magnetic tapes, I speak from experience. Rob Hoffman Priceless Photo Preservation Ann Arbor, MI 734-219-3916 htttp://wwwPricelessPhotoPreservation.com On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Michelle Ehenpreis <mmm...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi Gary, > Thank you so much for your reply. Yes we obtained copyright clearance, and > the VHS tapes are being converted for us to DVDs. However, as you explained > below, they cannot be streamed straight from DVDs onto a computer. Rather, > we can covert the DVDs into files using premier or imovie and then stream > them- is this correct? Also, for future projects, is it worthwhile to invest > in a converter like the one you mentioned? > Thank you so much for your help, > Michelle > > ________________________________ > From: "hand...@berkeley.edu" <hand...@berkeley.edu> > To: Michelle Ehenpreis <mmm...@yahoo.com>; videolib@lists.berkeley.edu > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 6:58 PM > > Subject: Re: [Videolib] streaming files from DVD onto a computer > > Hi > > If it's streaming your interested in, you can't simply rip a DVD to > computer... The file formats for standard DVDs are different than the > file formats used to stream video, generally. (By the way...I hope you're > paying attention to copyright) > > There are a number of ways to convert a video to streamable files. There > are a number of hardware/softwar products that will convert vhs output > into QuickTime, mpeg4, or other streamable formats. Some examples: > > http://vhs-to-dvd-review.toptenreviews.com/easycap-video-capture-review.html > > http://macs.about.com/od/applications/fr/vhstodvd.htma > > You can also buy a digital-analog converter (such as those made by > Canopus) and ingest vhs to your computer > (http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/312315-REG/Grass_Valley_602005_ADVC55_Compact_Analog_.html/) > You can use whatever editing software you use (iMovie, Premiere, whatev) > to import and convert this into whichever file format you want. > > > The files you create via the above means need to be mounted on and > delivered via a server. > > Gary Handman (who is still hanging on) > > > Hello, >> Thank you to everyone who responded to my inquiry about transferring VHS >> to DVD. We located a local business who will do it for us. However, we >> would like to stream the files from the DVDs and the business doing the >> conversion cannot provide the files. Does anyone know of a way to easily >> and safely rip DVDs onto a computer? >> >> Any tips would be really helpful, >> Thank you again, >> Michelle Ehrenpreis >> Molloy College >> VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of >> issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic >> control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in >> libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve >> as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of >> communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video >> producers and distributors. >> > > > > > > VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues > relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, > preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and > related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective > working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication > between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and > distributors. > VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
