Help needed w/mini dv

[702plmo]

I have a few mini DV tapes.   I am not able to transfer them to DVD.   Once I have them on DVD I can edit them.  
  Is there anyone out there that can do this for me.   And if so what do you charge.

Maybe a total of 3 hours on about 4 or 5 tapes.

[Tom Mussatto]

If you intend to edit the footage I would suggest you not burn them to DVD first. You would be converting the original AVI footage to highly compressed MPEG2 codec in the process. Compressing video to reduce file size does not squeeze the video but rather discards data. This data would be permanently lost and when you out put the footage to your destination format a great deal of quality would be lost, both video and audio. Do all your editing first and then put the finished product to DVD.

What kind of editing equipment do you have that requires the footage to be on a DVD? Are you looking to just cut and splice the footage or do you need a full edit with color correcting, transitions, titling, FX, soundtrack, and menus?

[702plmo]

I am not a professioal at this at all.    I borrowed a canon gl1 from a friend a fewtimes and used it.   I have no way to play back the footage.  (with out the camera)
    I have taken some footage and still pictures from my digital camera (Point and shoot) and edited it on my PC using a micro soft program that came on the PC.  
  I figured  if I got the footage taken from the tape and put on DVD I could edit it on the PC.

I am doing this just for family entertainment not for a professional grade TV show.

[Tom Mussatto]

Jim, I sent you a PM.