Date:         Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:41:44 -0800
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Subject:      Re: Digital Audio/Video
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David Lynx wrote:
> We now have 10,000 images online, and are going to start working on
> transferring reel-to-reel, VHS, audio casette, and 16mm to digital.  Most of
> the finished products will be accessible in-house, as I think they finished
> digital files will probably be too big to be accessible online.  We are
> looking at creating transcripts for the material, and possibly offering
> samples online.
> 
> What I am curious about is what software and hardware everyone is using for
> transferring their analog material to digital, and what problems/successes
> everyone has had doing this.
> 
> Thanks for your help
> David Lynx

Again, I am not an archivist or librarian; just an individual with large 
libraries which need preservation for personal use.

For videotape, I strongly recommend a standalone DVD recorder. While 
computer operation is more flexible, it is vastly more time-consuming 
and more susceptible to failure. In addition, once the image is captured 
in digital form, it can be brought into the computer at negligible loss 
when time and budget are sufficient for more elaborate processing.

My own choice is a Panasonic recorder with hard drive; there is 
information about it in the primer on the CD-R side of my WWW site.

Others will surely have recommendations quite different from my 
operations on audio and on film conversion.

Mike
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