Transfer Umatic to PC inquiry

[ozstar100]

HI,

I have a bunch of umatic tapes which I had previously transferred to hard disk when I owned a Umatic recorder, but when I went to look for the files found both it and the backup over the years have crashed.

I am in Sydney and trying to find a place where I can hire a Umatic player.

I have called many audio-visual places but they don't have them anymore.

I have seen one I can buy a Sony 5630 but would prefer to hire for a day or two only.

I think when I transferred it before I ran it through my Hi8 or min Dv at the time. Would that have been right as I can't quite recall - memory at my age

I just found n AverMedia AVerTV USB2.0, maybe I used this. Which would give the better quality?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

oz

[hech54]

I think when I transferred it before I ran it through my Hi8 or min Dv at the time. Would that have been right as I can't quite recall - memory at my age

I just found n AverMedia AVerTV USB2.0, maybe I used this. Which would give the better quality?

Unless the AverTV thing is able to capture to uncompressed AVI (or HuffyUV)....the DV passthru idea would yield better quality. Some USB capture devices can capture with other software besides what came with them(VirtualDub or DeScaler)....some cannot.
Unless you only want to go straight to MPEG2/DVD....then all of my babble is just that....babble.

[ozstar100]

Hi,

I want as good a quality that I can get so will check out the Aver and see what it does.

As you say, I guess the DV will be the go.

Thanks for the time

oz