Analog to digital

[Shifty268]

Hello there i have old analog tape i want to back up to digital. I have a Panasoinc nv-gs120 3ccd camera, and old analog camera and a VCR how do i got about it???

Cheers

[lumis]

http://www.expandore.com/product/DV%20Product/NV_GS120.htm

according to this page, your camera has composite inputs & as well as an s-video input. i imagine you would just connect your vcr to that, press play and start recording on the camera.. once you're done, dump the DV video to your computer and encode to dvd spec video. check the guides on the left hand side of the screen for information on how to convert DV to DVD.

[Shifty268]

I want to get it from a sony analog cam corder tape?

[lumis]

connect your VCR to your DV cam, set the correct input on your DV cam, press play on the VCR, press record on the DV cam. make sure you have an empty DV tape in there. then you will have your analog VCR tape in a digital format on your DV tape. dump the contents of that DV tape to your computer, convert it to DVD spec.

if you need someone to hold your hand throughout the process you might as well just find a professional service to do this for you.

[thecoalman]

I want to get it from a sony analog cam corder tape?

The DV cam will convert your analog tape from the cam or any VHS you have, it works for both..... As mentioned above you just connect the analog device to the DV cam and you can transfer it directly to digital tape and/or your computer via firewire .. don't use USB.

[whitejremiah]

if it's got both composite and s-video, why bother with the middleman? just go straight from the cam to a pc through a video capture card.........just my two cents

[Shifty268]

Ive got it all sotred. Should i capture to PAL or NTSC should i de-interlcae or should i not?

[FulciLives]

Ive got it all sotred. Should i capture to PAL or NTSC should i de-interlcae or should i not?

If it is PAL you capture PAL ... if it is NTSC you capture NTSC. You cannot capture PAL as NTSC nor can you capture NTSC as PAL.

99% of the time you do NOT want to de-interlace. It does depend on the end result or format you will be using in the end but if you are going for a standard DVD that will be played back on a TV then by all means avoid de-interlacing.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[thecoalman]

Ive got it all sotred. Should i capture to PAL or NTSC should i de-interlcae or should i not?

Capture as DV-AVI, that's an exact duplicate of what the cam is producing. Don't deinterlace..

if it's got both composite and s-video, why bother with the middleman? just go straight from the cam to a pc through a video capture card.........just my two cents

The capture card is the middle man.... The DV cam does the same thing the capture card does, it converts it to a digital format. That's beside the fact it produces better results than most capture cards will without spending a good chunk of cash. Quality and ease of use, you can't go wrong.

[vsparej]

Any thoughts on which would be "better" to use: composite cables, or s-video ? (I can use either with my eqpt..)

[Shifty268]

Thanks for all the help guys!