Analog to DV

[joutten]

If my DV camera does not support analog input, is there something that I can add to the camera that will make it that way??? I really need to transfer VHS tapes to the computer and burn them to DVD without having dropped frames.....

[Jester700]

No. Sorry. You can get an external box as a passthru, but it runs a couple hundred bucks. If you can return the cam, it might be worth it to look at spending that extra for a cam that has the feature. Or, you could just get a PCI card that can do your capping in real time, like a Hauppauge PVR250, which should be less $$.

[ToddB]

If you want no frame drops, get the Pinnacle DV500 DVD. I just got one last week and I've been pretty happy with it except I can no longer hibernate the system. Hopefully they will have a fix out some time soon. I was dubbing onto my DV cam, but VHS tapes are 120min where my DV tapes were 90min. The DV500 is fast and has hardware accelerated MPEG-2 encoding that looks really good. It takes about 6min to render DVD quality video on a 5min clip.

This is the cheepest I found it for, and it had $2 second day shipping. Also, there is a rebate for a $109 Contour Shuttle.
http://www.googlegear.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=323007

[Craig Tucker]

If you are after an AtoD converter, I have heard good things about the canopus ADVC-100

[henk schuifkaas]

Take a look at www.dv-in-france.com, maybe your DV-camera does support analog-in and it's just blocked. My camera (sony trv6e) didn't have DV-in, and with a simple cable and some codes I can put my edited video back to the camera

[ToddB]

Thank god for the altavista translator. LOL My Sony PC100 isn't listed, but they havn't updated that site for a long time. I did this kind of thing for my stand a lone sony dvd player to get rid of macrovision and blocking you from fast forwarding through the FBI warnings. Worked great.