Is there any sort of guide of getting rid of the mould, or is it just a case of opening up the tape and (carefully) using something like a baby wipe or a tissue?
Jaxson: Keep us in the loop with progress. I’m about to do the same. In the past I’ve done this using my Panasonic DV handicam as an intermediary device, feeding analogue VCR output into camera and FireWire out to the PC. Hard to find a computer with FireWire onboard nowadays though.
Looping back on this I purchased a firewire card and that should take care of getting my DV handicam into the PC.
However I've now discovered adobe has dropped all capture support in premiere pro since the last 2-3 years versions. Was not expecting that. Understand it's not used my many at all, but video archivists are not happy. Opting now to use a very old basic standalone DV capture software app and will see how that goes. community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-ideas/bring-back-video-capture/idc-p/14210064
All of this is to digitize both miniDV tapes but also because it lets me pass any analogue signal into the DV handicam input and on into the PC for capture. Is a nice gateway option for me.
Interestingly that is sort of similar to what I did. I have an Canopus ADVC110 firewire capture box which takes both analogue video and DV input.
For analogue in (I use s-video) it outputs DV format over firewire which I then captured with my PC with a IEEE1394 card. I just used the capture application from an earlier version of Sony Vegas and that works fine. For my Digital 8 or miniDV tapes I just routed the firewire output directly into my 1394 card.
I even have an older Windows 7 laptop (the Toshiba Windows Vista launch PC) which I have a IEEE1394 PC Card that I also use when I want to capture from my VHS machine which is in the video cabinet and don't want to drag it out to use next to my desktop.
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