![]() ![]() After a month in Hong Kong I recorded a round the world, year long trip onto about 20 DV tapes. I bought a Sony PAL Cybershot DV camcorder in Hong Kong after a year stint there in 2000. More here. I’m assuming you have some of these on hand – that’s why you’re here. They came in NTSC and PAL and were usually right around 480P resolution. Before that, people used huge VHS tapes and after, people started taking videos with their smartphones, particularly the iPhone. The heyday of DV tapes was from about 1995-2010. But it does take some legwork to set up the hardware, especially if you don’t have access to circa 2010 hardware. You can combine the scenes or just take each scene separately into editing software, or just shoot them out to your file server, Youtube or social networks. Come back in an hour and you’ve got your scenes cut up and saved locally. The TL DR is that you throw in a DV tape to your Mac connected DV player, name the videos and hit import. LifeFlix 3.0 is downloadable Mac OSX 10.7 or later software ($80 or $20 update with free trial available) which automates the mundane aspects of pulling videos off of old DV tapes. ![]() For one reason or another, I didn’t import them after I made them and now the FOMO is starting to creep in as the hardware to pull these videos off the tapes rapidly becomes obsolete. Something that has been sitting at the back of my mind forever is that pile of DV tapes I have in the attic which were taken before smartphone cameras existed. ![]()
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