DVD to iMovie?
I have some old family videos I want to move to my Mac and edit in iMovie. I've found a company that will transfer them to DVD for a steep price, but my Mac won't recognize the DVD. However, they do play on my Panasonic DVD Player.
Is there a way to transfer these to Quicktime so I can edit them in iMovie?
I have the original 8mm videos, but the camera has died. I don't want to buy a new 8mm camera to transfer the videos because I'd rather get a new digital camera.
Any thoughts? Thanks.
Is there a way to transfer these to Quicktime so I can edit them in iMovie?
I have the original 8mm videos, but the camera has died. I don't want to buy a new 8mm camera to transfer the videos because I'd rather get a new digital camera.
Any thoughts? Thanks.
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You might want to ask the company to give you DV QuickTime files of your 8mm...
And converting 8mm to DVD shouldn't be that much, should it?
<strong>Not legally. </strong><hr></blockquote>
whoa. there shouldn't be any legal issues here. a person is attempting to rip a dvd for personal use. people are allowed to make a reasonable backup of media. furthermore, the dvd is of his own home videos. unless he sold/gave up the rights to his own family movies, theres no legal issue.
but, as far as ripping the dvd, i dont know of any way of doing it. it might be a problem with the mac's drive. try to play other dvds. if that doesn't work, u may have to get the drive replaced to do anything on it.
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whoa. there shouldn't be any legal issues here. a person is attempting to rip a dvd for personal use. people are allowed to make a reasonable backup of media. furthermore, the dvd is of his own home videos. unless he sold/gave up the rights to his own family movies, theres no legal issue.
but, as far as ripping the dvd, i dont know of any way of doing it. it might be a problem with the mac's drive. try to play other dvds. if that doesn't work, u may have to get the drive replaced to do anything on it.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I should have clarified a little. I think he/she is talking about a cooked DVD.
You cannot reproduce a video signal coming from a consumer DVD player successfully without adding illegal hardware to do it. Whether its a DVD-R or DVD, you still have to get hardware to reproduce it from a consumer DVD player. You cannot also legally copy a DVD from your Mac but you can reproduce a DVD-R which is different. There's tons of software and hardware out there to do it.
I'm also assuming the original poster doesn't have a Mac with a DVD drive to play it. So he was trying to dump his/her DVD content into his/her Mac?
The best way, IMHO, is to get QuickTime DV files of your 8mm on a CD-ROM. Then you can play with iMovie.
I'm using a 1ghz ddr (mirror doors) Powermac. I took one of the 8mm cartridges to a local duplication house and they put it on DVD-R. For some reason, my Mac doesn't recognize the content, but my home entertainment DVD system does. I was hoping I could somehow convert the DVD files to quicktime, so I could edit them in iMovie.
Looks like your idea, JPF, of duplicating the tapes again, this time in quicktime and on a CD might be better. At $55 per disc (the duplication house's charge), I would probably be better off getting a Formac video converter, borrowing an 8mm camera and doing the copying myself. Do you agree?
If anyone else has any ideas, I'd love to hear them.
Is the Mac just not playing the DVD, or is it not seeing the disc at all?
You could also find a friend with a DVD drive on a PC and see if it works.
I just bought a digitial camcorder with analog input so I could convert old home movies to DV, and then put them into iMovie etc. etc. Then I also had a new camcorder for new videos. To me, that makes more sense than buying a dedicated converter.
BRussel:
Thanks for the reply.
See my notes below:
Is the Mac just not playing the DVD, or is it not seeing the disc at all? The OS X finder recognizes the DVD, but indicates that it is empty. Quicktime, iMovie or iDVD don't recognize any files on the disk, either.
I just bought a digitial camcorder with analog input so I could convert old home movies to DV, and then put them into iMovie etc. etc.
What brand/model did you buy? Someone told me that Sony was the only company to make a camcorder that could read old 8mm tapes.
Thanks for your ideas.
BSharp
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