Want to input my Home movie videos VHS tapes into my imac and digitize and edit them. Any suggestions as to what product to get the vhs tapes into my iMac. I plan on just using iMovie
iMac 27″ 5K, macOS 10.13
You would need an analog to digital video converter. There are a lot of them out there. I have never used any of them so not knowledgeable enough from personal experience to make a recommendation.
One converter that has been mentioned a few times on this forum is the Elgato. Check out this link:
https://www.amazon.com/Elgato-Video-Capture-Digitize-iPad/dp/B0029U2YSA
Whichever converter that you buy, read its specs to make sure that it works with your computer and operating system.
--Rich
You would need an analog to digital video converter. There are a lot of them out there. I have never used any of them so not knowledgeable enough from personal experience to make a recommendation.
One converter that has been mentioned a few times on this forum is the Elgato. Check out this link:
https://www.amazon.com/Elgato-Video-Capture-Digitize-iPad/dp/B0029U2YSA
Whichever converter that you buy, read its specs to make sure that it works with your computer and operating system.
--Rich
IndyAnna1 wrote:
Want to input my Home movie videos VHS tapes into my imac and digitize and edit them. Any suggestions as to what product to get the vhs tapes into my iMac. I plan on just using iMovie
If you are running macos Ventura (or higher), I would suggest this:
I had an older VC500 for Mac device, but the hardware is not recognized by Ventura. Diamond had put out an update (for "Big Sur and higher") but is still useless if running Ventura. I jfound out the hard way this morning (after not using it for a while) - I just ordered the same device linked above today.
I don't know whether the Elgato capture device mentioned above works under Ventura either - the system requirement specs for Mac say 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) or later. That's been around for quite some time, but Ventura's security may have changed some way how USB capture devices work with the OS.
The Diamond device - once recognized by the Mac - uses QuickTime Player ("New Movie Recording") to record from what the VCR is playing back. I'm not sure whether iMovie has the same recording capability built in, I've never messed around with it in that capacity.
Steve
You can also use a service like Legacy Box. Note that whatever you choose, the video quality will be pretty poor.
iMovie can certainly record from a FireWire DV stream, but I am not sure about one coming from USB.
Didgitizing and editing VHS video tapes on my imac
