Posted by peter on 11/22/07 01:49
"Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@xp7rt.net> wrote in message
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> "peter" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote ...
>> Thank you very much. One rental place I plan to visit also said the
>> transfer cannot be done digitally via firewire. When I first heard it I
>> thought they must be kidding. Now I'm beginning to think they are right.
>>
>> The info you give here is a gotcha. It's a good thing I have not rented a
>> deck with firewire to attempt my own transfer. It would have been a big
>> surprise.
>
> I have a Panasonc AJ-D250 (I think that is the correct model)
> but it is a pre-Firewire model. I can likely capture your tapes
> via analog (composite or Y/C) into DV-AVI using a Canous
> ADVC-300. I am in Portland.
Thanks for the offer. I had the tapes converted to miniDV by a pro video
company. I'm now transferring from miniDV to my computer. There were some
audio dropouts; perhaps my camcorder's head is out of alignment. But I have
a backup audio track so that is ok.
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