Capturing years worth of videos

[PharmBoy]

I am going to capture about 9 years worth of videos that are on digital hi 9 tapes to my computer. While I have copied bits and pieces hear and there, I have never actually gone through and captured the entire tape. I had always used windv in the past through my sony's firewire port. Wanted to get others opinions about using this program. It looks as if under the tools section people really like it.
Is there a better tool out there to use?
Any special settings I should use?
I noticed one person stating that they had aud/vid sync problems when using type 2-avi but then noticed that some of the tutorials specifically state to use type-2 avi.

As always thanks for the help/opinions

[MOVIEGEEK]

Type 1 interleaves the video and audio streams resulting in better sync.
Type 2 seperates the streams and offers universal encoder compatibility.
What you will need:
1.WinDV
2.Editor(optional)
3.Encoder
4.Authoring software
...or you can use an all-in-one such as Ulead VideoStudio.

[PharmBoy]

Thanks for the reply
I should have mentioned that I am really only interested in archiving them for now. I will probably thow them into some editor later and chop them up but really just wanting to back them up to an external and store them away from the originals in case of fire or something bad like that.

[aedipuss]

windv will give you the same quality as output from your cam. really can't get any better. the problem you will probably run into is that it captures at dv spec. - 13 GB per hour of tape. you may need quite a few hard drives at that rate if you have a lot of tapes.

[PharmBoy]

Thanks for the posts
I purchased two USB harddrives.
I guess that was a mistake because I captured all of the videos over on those drives and after I was all done I found that they were all real jumpy. Sooo..... I made room on my second internal haddrive. My new question is if I want to turn off as many "processes" as possible in the background, is there an easy way to know what can and can't be turned off. I know many of them but not all (I have 53 running to begin with). I tried starting in safe mode but then I can't get the computer to recognize my camcorder which is plug n play via the firewire. Any suggestions.
And yes I captured all the movies before trying one and found that it was jumpy

[redwudz]

I suspect a USB problem. Most any modern computer shouldn't have a problem with DV transfer. If your internal drive works properly, then you may have your answer.

If you don't have Firewire, do you have SATA on your MB? If not you could get a SATA PCI card and a SATA drive in an external enclosure. It will be the same speed or a little faster than your IDE drives.

As far as processes, use MSConfig. It will allow you to disable processes with no permanent damage. You may have to reboot if your computer locks up. In general, leave the system processes alone. Look for owner programs that use a large amount of CPU power and memory.

Or worst case, you may have a trojan or virus onboard. You can do a scan with a freeware program like Trend Micro.

[thecoalman]

blackviper.com used to be a grewat site for Services configuration, it's gone but you can find the old archived pages here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20050401044922/www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

If all else fails capture to your HD and copy to the USB drives.