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- August 18, 2008
Change 17 - Backup Home Videos
I have decided to backup home videos from MiniDV to an external hard drive.
I have three kids. As you can imagine, I’ve spent quite a lot of time videotaping them. I have hours and hours of footage, sitting on MiniDV tapes and I need to move that video from those tapes to some other storage media. In the past, I’ve made a few DVDs, but I want to backup the files on a giant external hard drive.
I have just ordered a pair of 500 GB drives and a 4-pin to 4-pin firewire cable. I’ll begin to transfer videos as soon as theses items arrive. (My new laptop requires a 4-pin adapter.)
I don’t know a whole lot about video transfer and compression, but I think I know enough to copy the files from the MiniDV tapes to the hard drive. Any input would be appreciated.
One Response to “Change 17 - Backup Home Videos”
I’m in the same boat with tons of video. I got a Pinnacle Video Transfer device and plan to use it to convert the video. Hope this helps. I just found your website and enjoy it. Thanks, Terry
By Terry A on Nov 7, 2008