#new user
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Another new board reader. I'm a plain Jane home video user. I have been
editing my videos for about eight years using the hunt and peck approach to
learning what I'm doing. I currently use an Eight year old panasonic PV320
camcorder,two four head VHS VCRs,a $15 cassette player, a ton of cables
connectors and adapted my one big piece of gear a Panosonic WJAV-5 mixer, and
some of the worlds fastest 43 year old fingers to push buttons fast and
furious. My dream is to dump my VHS tapes into my computer, manipulate them,
and hose the portions I want back to tape in the order I want. I still am not
sure that is possible after reading the message board here.
Dave:
>My dream is to dump my VHS tapes into my computer, manipulate them, and hose
the portions I want back to tape in the order I want. I still am not sure that
is possible after reading the message board here.<
Well, welcome aboard! As to your desire to dump VHS into your computer, it's
doable but on the expensive side. At a rough guess, you're looking at about
$10,000-$15,000 to get started–assuming you don't *already* have either a
Pentium or PowerMac w/32 megs or better of RAM and a couple gigabytes hard disk
space that you can pretty much exclusively use for desktop video (I know *I*
don't!).
Check VIDEOMAKER Magazine's monthly box on how much it'll cost you to set up a
basic VHS-quality nonlinear editing setup–that's what you want to do. It's not
a hard&fast and tends to lean towards Mac computers, but it's a good jumping
off point.
Hope this helps,
Tim Liebe