Taking it back to the old school.

Inspired by Tinalera picking up an old project, I'm going to finally finish one that was forgotten many years ago. I've got almost 20 hours of miniDV footage that I needed transfered to something I could edit. I looked into pricing for tape duplication, or whatever, and the least expensive I could find was $10/tape. Hell, I thought, for that amount, why don't I just buy my own equipment, do it myself, and in the end I come out on top.

I just bought this sweet little camera.

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I only purchased this for the purpose of being able to access those old miniDV tapes, but I'm kind of excited about having an old inexpensive camera that I can beat the hell out of. This baby's gonna get some good use.

I have the DCR TRV27 almost the same.

I think that baby does night vision. Its cool. Pick up an IR spot light and go get some freaky neighborhood prowler footage.

Word of warning. Dont sit around playing back the tapes first.. hook up the firewire cable and import logging the footage by hand as you go. The tapes are old, the equipments old, you might get only once chance at capturing the footage.

Cheapo mini DV cameras make perfect digitizing decks. We use a Canon HV20 to digitize all of our Sony HDV material here and our SD stuff.

Weird too. I'm re-doing the FX to a 10 year old short film of mine too. This lead to a new sound mix, a few new shots, and all kinds of madness.