Trevor Harrison
December 4th, 2008, 01:57 AM
My mother bought a GV-D200 for me, so that I could digitize our 8mm analog tapes, so that I could digitize and edit my videographer youth back in the 90's. I tried using FCE but it didn't work, so I used iMovie 08 and I have imported all the tapes as one file per tape (which is what I wanted to do to preserve the "RAW Tape" so to speak).
Though I babysitted the digitizing/importing (and had to force quit iMovie 08 to stop that damn thumbnail indexing), all tapes have a few seconds of blank tape at the beginning and seconds to minutes at the end of the tape that was imported. I want to cut off the blank parts and then save the file in the original format as the digital master of the tape (so I will never have to re-import these tapes again and can box them up for indefinite storage without degradation).
How can I do this. I have acquired FCE and will buy FCE5 when it comes out in January (or FCS3, that's for another thread). Since QTPro and iMovie can't do the frame by frame cutting (yes I am picky), How do I save out the trimmed clip so that there is zero quality loss while keeping as the original DV file?
Thanks for the help.
Though I babysitted the digitizing/importing (and had to force quit iMovie 08 to stop that damn thumbnail indexing), all tapes have a few seconds of blank tape at the beginning and seconds to minutes at the end of the tape that was imported. I want to cut off the blank parts and then save the file in the original format as the digital master of the tape (so I will never have to re-import these tapes again and can box them up for indefinite storage without degradation).
How can I do this. I have acquired FCE and will buy FCE5 when it comes out in January (or FCS3, that's for another thread). Since QTPro and iMovie can't do the frame by frame cutting (yes I am picky), How do I save out the trimmed clip so that there is zero quality loss while keeping as the original DV file?
Thanks for the help.