MiniDV converting and sorting files by more parameters

[Kalmek]

Hello, I came here for answer to my specific needs. I need both thing, but latter one is more important. Se here we go.

1) I have about 30 or more miniDV cassettes. I want to convert them to PC. I have camera which can play those tapes. It has 4-pin firewire, some AV "female jack port", and S-VIDEO. What is most convenient (but not necessarily most expensive) option to convert those cassetes. Should i get some miniDV-digital converter or some RCA-digital thing? I gues RCA to digital wold be cheaper. I saw option for standalone RCA-digital converter but its 100USD or more, but it can run independetly on PC and record on SD card. Is there a way, i can record to PC?
And i guess there is no way timestamp would automatically be saved to digital copy somehow in the process, right?

2) When i have all those videos, i plan to save them on some portable drive. There is a question of sorting them in folders. I would like to sort them by time, but i want also sort by place or things happening. I guess the original digital files would be sorted by time. But i was thinking that sorting by place could be done somehow with shortcuts to the original files. Like i will have folder with places, that will have shortcuts to the original files sorted by time, so no duplicates would be saved. Can that be done? Is there some system for that, other than creating those shortcuts by manually?

If i am ovethinking that, let me know if there is other solutions. And no, i wont send the tapes to someone to convert them for me. Cheapest converting here costs about 7USD per hour, which would be costly for all that cassettes.


Thanks for possible tips.

[pchan]

I have completed this process of converting from Video8 and mini DV tapes to DV format using ScenalyzerLive. It can name the capture files by date code. As a rule of thumb, 1 hour of video needs about 13GB in DV format.

Please refer to this thread.
https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/405311-mini-DV-tape-to-PC

[Kalmek]

Thanks for that but thats not exactly what i am looking for.