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by geerlingguy 90 days ago
Just thinking back 10 years ago when I was arching all my DV tapes on my Dad's old G5... I did it all by hand through Final Cut Express. It would've been sooo much easier had I known about dvgrab back then!
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mysteria 89 days ago
I'd heard a few horror stories about people doing it on Windows and Mac, with bad compatibility and annoying software. With dvgrab it's super simple.
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arthurfm 89 days ago
DVIO [0] and WinDV [1] would be the closest equivalents to dvgrab on Windows. Both are super easy to use (especially the former).

For HD DV tapes there's also HDVSplit [2].

[0] https://www.videohelp.com/software/DVIO

[1] https://www.videohelp.com/software/WinDV

[2] https://www.videohelp.com/software/HDVSplit

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JKCalhoun 89 days ago
Also ripped all my old MiniDV tapes a decade ago or so. (I don't remember it being tedious.) (I recall about 12GB for each 60min tape, FWIW.)

I've known for some time now not to trust media formats to remain easy to access as time goes on. Floppy disks, ZIP disks, SCSI…

So nice the home movies are now in the cloud (and on USB drives as additional backup).

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