RatVega
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Dec 14, 2005, 2:11 PM
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Re: [waterbaby2005] VHS to Digital via Sony HC32E into imovie
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Let me start by saying I'm not an iMovie expert - I went directly to FCP when we started doing video.
My guess is that you have one too many actors in your little stage play. iMovie isn't very smart with capturing, it just talks to FireWire (FW) and pulls in whatever is out there. Unless your camera has a setting that allows you to pass the VCR datastream through to the FW, iMovie will probably assume it wants whatever is on the handycam tape.
The simplest way around this is probably to record the VHS to the handycam, then capture. If your VHS tapes are long, make sure the second (and third?) tapings have some overlap of footage since there is no timecode and little machine control when doing this. You can cut the clips later to get one continuous timeline.
A second possibility would be to use a FW A/V "break-out box" which would take the VCR data directly to FW. That's how I usually capture VHS.
The third option is to wait for some "iMovie ace" to appear and give you some secret solution that makes it work like magic. 
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