Help - how to get a digital video casette to a CD?
 

ok, I bought some content and it's on a wee little digital video casette. I need it on a cd to do anything with it. Can anyone help?

8mm tape? hi8/digital8?

Im not 100%, but i think you need to put the disc in the camera, plug camera into your computer and download it.

if you have a digital video camera, it has a tape in it... this doesn't matter... hook it up to your pc and burn it to a cd

just occured to me... what type of camera is it?

basically yeah.

if it's on a digital video cassette (dig8) you'll need a DV camera and a firewire card usually to get it onto the computer.

tape says "mini DV DIgital video cassette"

I don't have a video camera, fuck I hardly ever even use my digital camera.

Is a firewire card always needed? Or can you just use USB or something?

Sleeezy, here's what you do.; You are gonna need a digital camera for this or at least a mini dv player, there's no way around that. I would imagine you have a laptop. Instead of buying an unnecassary piece of equipment for this one little project do what I do when I need a simple thing done and I am on the road & away from a critical piece of equipment...

Go to the electronics store and take your firewire or 1394 cord and load it from one of their demo cameras. Yeah, I know it's the cheap bastard way but in cases like this... it works!

If the clerk looks at you funny slip him a $5 or $15cdn which is more than he makes in and hour and you will be fine.

Here's what you do -- find someone that already encodes video and get them to do it for you -- much cheaper, they can do it right --

sleazy fed ex it to erik at sobegirl he will chop it for you too

Good idea... will write that down!

Pray to the almighty party goat.

If all else fails, shoot yourself in the head.

this is why I love kimmykim soo much, exactly the answer I was looking for but I was too dumb to ask it straight out.


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