My Canon Mini DV camcorder broke (it was quite old) and I have a bunch of tapes with footage on them.
What is a CHEAP way to get the footage onto my external hard drive?
Doc
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MINIDV tapesMy Canon Mini DV camcorder broke (it was quite old) and I have a bunch of tapes with footage on them.
What is a CHEAP way to get the footage onto my external hard drive? Doc
Re: MINIDV tapesWell there's the obviously cheapest way, which is to find someone who would let you use their MiniDV camcorder for the job. You likely don't know anyone with one or you wouldn't have asked the question. The next step up would be to find a used one on eBay. It just has to work, not look good. You could even resell it when you're finished and make the total cost even less.
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Re: MINIDV tapesYep, I'm with Dave. You can probably pick up a used miniDV cam on eBay for much cheaper than you could hire some service bureau to capture your video to a hard drive for you.
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Re: MINIDV tapesI concur Doc.
Not sure of your experience level, but once you get a device to physically read the tapes, you would need to "capture" the video and that runs in "real time" - I.e. you would have to play each tape at normal speeds to capture. That could take an hour per tape - a daunting task if you have a lot of tapes. Bobby (Bob Seidel)
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