I've just come through this exact dilemma. If you can't find a pass through video camera, you can record your tapes with any camera that records on mini-dv tapes from a VCR, then transfer the contents of the mini-dv tape to your computer.
#Videotape to dvd converter for mac Pc#
NTSC Videotape>CANON ZR700 NTSC Camcorder>iMac Power PC G4 10.5.8>iMovie 6.03 I use a pass through Canon videocamera attached to a VCR and my iMac Power PC G4 with iMovie 6.03. I'm looking for some hardware I can use to connect a VCR to my iMac to record some video, presumably directly into iMovie, unless you've got a completely different suggestion completely. So I waited a few years till I got some new computer hardware, and now I'd like to get some new Analog to DV hardware as well, as the PyroAV looks terrible these days.
So if I attempted to let a 6-hour VHS tape record into the computer I'd often return to only the first hour or so recorded before it cut off completely, which sucks. I've attempted this project in the past with ADS' "PyroAV" analog to digital converter with an old G4 I was using, but the PyroAV had a bad habit of cutting off whenever there was a blank area in the tape. I'm using the current entry-level 27" iMac. My current VCR is almost a decade old and actually has a tape currently jammed in it right now so I'm gonna have to head to wal-mart and pick up a VCR/DVD combo deck to output video from, as I'm concerned my current one might start eating tapes even after I get whatever's in there unstuck. Plus, once they're into the computer I'll always have a digital version of them I can fiddle with down the road. I'm not quite advanced enough of a user to do anything along the lines of restoring the picture and audio, but they shouldn't be that bad in the first place. Long story short, I've got about a dozen old family home videos from the mid to late 80s and early 90s that I'd like to digitize, edit if necessary, and convert to DVD.
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