Re: VHS digitizing & keyframe extracting

From: Guenter Waibel (guenter@UCLINK4.BERKELEY.EDU)
Date: Thu May 04 2000 - 11:33:59 CDT

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Date:         Thu, 4 May 2000 09:33:59 -0700
From: Guenter Waibel <mailto:guenter@UCLINK4.BERKELEY.EDU>
Subject:      Re: VHS digitizing & keyframe extracting
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    <pre> Hi there,

    at the Berkeley Art Museum, we are digitizing videotapes of interviews with artists. Our set-up: obviously, a vhs player, a sony dvmc-da1 codec converter (little box that converts the analog signal into dv; hooks up via Firewire), a G4 and Apple's FinalCutPro.

    If your needs are fairly limited and you will not have to do any massive editing except for trimming in the front & back, even Apple's free tool iMovie will do the trick for you. Depending on how you want to output the final digitized clips, you will also need some kind of compression software - at the very low end something like Quicktime Pro ($30), at the higher end something like MediaCleaner (I think the EZ version is around $400, but I may be wrong; an EZ version comes bundled with FinalCutPro, the whole package educationally priced at around $500).

    Hope this helps, Guenter

    >Hello,
    >
    >At my company i want to digitize VHS tapes and extract the frames from these
    >tapes. Does anyone know some good products?
    >
    >thanks,
    >
    >Menno IsraÎl

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Guenter Waibel Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive Digital Media Developer http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/ Digital Imaging SIG Chair, MCN http://www.mcn.edu/visig_subscribe.taf mailto:guenter@uclink4.berkeley.edu Phone 510-643-8655 Fax 510-642-4889
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