Friends,
I have almost 25 tapes. With great difficulty (Win XP based software that was supplied with Samsung camcorder), I tried. I found the filesize to be 1.5GB for 4 minutes of Video/Audio for AVI file format. My questions are:
1. Have any of you undertaken this kind of conversion project? What file format you decided to get best compression without compromising video quality?
2. I have another camcorder (Panasonic) that uses DVM60 tape but no software to convert the tapes. Any software you recommend (open source or low cost) to convert tapes to files?
3. I am planning to buy two cheap large size disks (in case if one fails I can use the other). Any other ideas to store this content? I estimate the size to be almost 50-60GB of converted tapes.
Thanks
Sun
I have almost 25 tapes. With great difficulty (Win XP based software that was supplied with Samsung camcorder), I tried. I found the filesize to be 1.5GB for 4 minutes of Video/Audio for AVI file format. My questions are:
1. Have any of you undertaken this kind of conversion project? What file format you decided to get best compression without compromising video quality?
2. I have another camcorder (Panasonic) that uses DVM60 tape but no software to convert the tapes. Any software you recommend (open source or low cost) to convert tapes to files?
3. I am planning to buy two cheap large size disks (in case if one fails I can use the other). Any other ideas to store this content? I estimate the size to be almost 50-60GB of converted tapes.
Thanks
Sun