Can it convert mini dv's to disk?
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Milton, my daughter put it on a SD card I think it's called (I'm not the techno expert) and in order to edit it you have to have certain program. She has a Mac computer and it wouldn't load on mine. PS It was a total waste of money as far as I'm concerned. The sound is absolutely horrible, mumbly and behind lips moving, and it takes forever to transfer from each vhs tape cause you have to play it through. Maybe you have faster way to do it.
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I believe so - I was converting VHS "C" format & 8MM. Very cumbersome process and I had to find a player that played those devices. Somebody has to come our with a better system. But after ,many hours (dyas) I did get 2-3 movies to come out fairly clean and audible.
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If you have the camera there is transfer boxes you can buy for about $30, I'm sure on amazon too. You just plug audio/video cables in and transfer anything to the computer, then burn it on DVD. I have one and it works great. If you don't have the camera there should be something that just plays the tapes, may be hard to find though. Mini DV camcorders are obsolete now, should be able to find one pretty cheap or on eBay to use for transferring tapes.
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These miniature audio CD's. They only hold abut 350megs of data. If you have a video camera you need to burn them on DVD+R or DVD-R to be compatible in today's DVD players. If your video file is .mp4, .flv or something like that that is less than 350megs you will be OK. If you try to copy a movie such as the kind you see in video store they are too small. These CD's are about 3" wide, very small compared to the regular CD.Hope this helps.
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I don't have the mini, but I've read all over that i will play .ISO files just like if it were in a DVD player. I have the regular WDTV and it will play .ISO files, but will only play the main movie (or the longest file, i.e. when I select The Aristocrats .ISO file, it plays the extra un-edited joke video and not the main movie)
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Go to "import video" on whatever software you're using and the mini cam should be there whatever it may be called.
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It uses minidv. To me it had been a major shortcoming as it has "eaten" some vital footage 3rd time using it due to time coding issues on the tape when stopping and starting frequently
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Your videos will go on the mini dv tape only. Memory card is for pictures only.
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Yes you can. Format, depends on what you use and save after you edit. I use Roxio and save as WMV. I also burn to DVD and play on a 50" plasma. Video is better than our old VHS-C and close to MiniDV.
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Yes, these record on mini-dv tapes. They also have a slot for an sd-card. Quality and legnth of recording seem better on the tape.
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I am not very technical, so I am going to try the flash disk, but the information booklet says you can use an external USB drive or hard drive in PVR file format.
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If your Mini has a USB port, I'm sure it'll work just fine. You can either set back-ups to perform automatically via Time Machine, or manually copy files by dragging and dropping.
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Yes this drive can burn on to BDXL media (up to 128GB on 1 Disc) http://youtu.be/ZRSnF0pAF9o
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Yes you can, with a little work. Go to AVSforum and search the DVR+ thread for their testing of a program called "ffmpeg" which converts the original file to a useable format.
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David Pogue wrote a piece in the NY Times on the subject, making some solid points in favor of mini-dv which ultimately turned me away from any non-tape-based cameras. If you feel like subjecting yourself further into this dead horse of a subject, the link to his piece is below:http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/20/technology/circuits/20pogue.html
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I have used a 4TB WD MyBook successfully. I made the mistake of connecting that 4TB drive to an old Windows computer which mangled it, then even after a reformat, the DVR crashes every time I connect the drive. Somehow only the original factory format could work.The DVR can use a large FAT32 drive but formatting a 2TB+ HD as FAT32 results in 1.6TB capacity.
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yes, it will read mini dv in a reader\recorder DVCPRO of course .. hope i have helped
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I have not been able to do that yet with USB or CD. Only format I know of would be the tape deck.