It's a real swiss army knife of consumer inputs - lots of inputs to it, and it plays nicely with iMovie as well as Final Cut.ĪDS Instant DVD for Mac: another older unit, this one has an onboard MPEG-1/2 converter, which makes it particularly appealing if I'm capturing video with no intent of editing, and I just want to author straight to DVD, or if I'm needing to output MPEG-1 to try to appease the dinosaur Windows user crowd (as MPEG-1 seems to be the only baseline of video compatibility over in their camp). You might be able to find one on eBay if you're lucky. My rig has 5 video input options, and they all have their own quirks and specialties:ĪDS Pyro firewire DV bridge: this is an older unit that I don't think is produced any more. IMovie 06 and iDVD 11 is a 100% "lossless" combination and my DVD's look like they came from Hollywood!
If you share your movie from iMovie 11, it gets re-rendered at 640x480 or less, and then iDVD upscales it back to 720x480. Your movie will arrive at iDVD in DV format, which is an ideal match for making a DVD: same resolution, same pixels aspect ratio, and original quality. If your primary workflow is editing DV clips and making DVDs, iMovie '06 is better suited. iMovie 06 uses ALL of the image to form the video. IMovie 11/09 uses 'single field processing' meaning every other horizontal line of the video is thrown out, which reduces the sharpness of the footage. Is iLife capable of recording the actual footageĭo i need a third party program to capture the video? Not only can you simply convert analog to digital you can actually manipulate the signal going in (if you want to). Absolutely NO "Out Of Sync" audio.ĪDVC300 is for anyone who wants to do editing and is concerned about quality of color and speed, for the novice it is an incredible gizmo that will restore VHS tapes to a state close to the original fixing midtones, highlights and shadows on the fly. The time code function is alone worth the price if you have old analog footage. No dropped frames at all, even with questionable quality tapes, no jitter, great color, excellent sound quality.
Short verison, this is the ONLY unit to own. I've played around with countless other conversion systems, ranging in price from $79 to $399. In my experience Firewire converters give higher quality results.
I want to convert my VHS to digital format.
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