Converting Film footage to your computer

[crazyped]

See,most of my friends and mine good stuff is on my video camera.And it uses tapes so I dont know what to do.Is there any programs that convert film to your computer?

[unclemag]

Well, this probobly isnt the easiest way, but I have an ATI TV card in my computer, and It came with a RCA to USB thing, so I could play the tape and 'record' it onto the computer as a MPEG4. That was gay, because it'd take as long as as much footage you had. So if you have two hours of footage, it'd take two hours to 'download' it. I got a new camera, you should too.

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/Sonydscw7/Images/3q.jpg

It takes these little things call memory sticks.

http://www.igadget.com.au/catalog/images/MSPro1000.jpg

It owns. 1Gig on a little thing the size of your thumb, and about as thick as a few sheets of paper. They even have two gig ones.
I plug that shit to my comp, and bam, hours of footage transferred in seconds. The only thing questionable is the frame rate. If I slow the footage to half its decent. If I slow it to a quarter, it starts to look choppy. All in all, it still owns.

[Trippy_Filmer]

no no no.... get a firewire card ... there is a thread stickied about them. read all about it. and tapes are the way to go because you always have backup if it gets erased from your camera!

[hopelessfilmer]

WTF was that unclemag memory sticks??? no no firewire only its the fastest and cleantets sollution

[casanova]

tapes are not film. film is just like a 35mm camera. get it right i was about to type a huge ass paragraph for you on how to get film developed and onto your computer

[Ramprage]

Is it a HI-8 tape camera or does it use mini DV tapes? The MiniDV cameras support downloading to your computer directly while older cameras do not. For the older ones you need a In on your video card so you can bring in the footage. Generally this quality will be very poor and not worth your time. Instead spend $200 and get a MiniDV camera that has USB 2.0 or firewall so you can download straight to your computer. The quality will be much better and the download speeds a lot faster

[crazyped]

It has small tapes.To watch them you have to put them in this bigger thing and then you can watch them.does that count?

[hopelessfilmer]

wow...... what type of camera is it.... by the sounds of things you have a h8 but whast the model...........
oh and ramprage its firewire not firewall... w/e at least your helping

[Trippy_Filmer]

read my new thread....

[unclemag]

WTF was that unclemag memory sticks??? no no firewire only its the fastest and cleantets sollution


Read the first seven words in my other post. I do what works for me. I use memory sticks, you go pee-pee sitting down, etc.

[hopelessfilmer]

wow that was unbelivable immature

[moto04racing]

get a cameramate thing... it attaches your av cord into the box then onto the computer.. its at radio shack, its going to run you about 65-70$.. and it comes with an editing program.. it works for my shit ass computer and its an 8mm tape

[Ozzyfreak]

dude ball you ned is a firewire which run for about 30-35 bucks, thats it... (unless you dont have the firewire port, then you need to buy a firewire card)

[hopelessfilmer]

well considering firewire cables are 9 bucks....

[Ramp]