I'm about to start capturing all my Mini DV tape to the HD. I have a pair of Lacie 1 terabyte drives that I'm going to be using for storage. I'm only ever going to use this Video for the web, so there is no need to capture at anything higher than DVD quality. What I'm wondering is if there is a way on the Mac OS X to capture via FIREWIRE directly to a format other than Raw AVI, a format thats closer to the DVD quality that I'm looking for but still natively editable within Final cut.
Reason, I have over 400 Full Mini DV tapes of content, and capturing all to Raw format would just take WAY to much HD space. But I would like to be able to keep all the captured footage so that if later, I feel like editing or changing something, maybe create a new available format of my video, I could do so in a batch of everything at once.
I also need a format that Final cut pro works in native so I can edit etc without all the re encoding. Ideas?
Reason, I have over 400 Full Mini DV tapes of content, and capturing all to Raw format would just take WAY to much HD space. But I would like to be able to keep all the captured footage so that if later, I feel like editing or changing something, maybe create a new available format of my video, I could do so in a batch of everything at once.
I also need a format that Final cut pro works in native so I can edit etc without all the re encoding. Ideas?
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