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tvmitch:

--- Quote from: Blanquepage on November 07, 2021, 09:33:38 AM ---I would suggest just investing in a ClearClick digital video converter, especially for digitizing a large number of tapes.
https://www.amazon.com/ClearClick-Converter-2-0-Second-Generation/dp/B07V9JNRZY/

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Thanks, I hadn’t heard of that device before. That’s very nifty how you can capture video to a card or flash drive and deal with it later…and it’s not tying up a computer. I ordered one.

Winkfan:

--- Quote from: Blanquepage on November 07, 2021, 09:33:38 AM ---I've been using this for several months now and can easily get through a couple tapes per day.
It's super nifty to just press record, step out for brunch, and then later separate the episodes with an MP4 Splitter. Which is obviously my plan for today ;D
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I have one myself, I can connect it to my DVR to capture the stuff I recorded on there. I might also suggest a SanDisk Ultra USB flash drive (mainly a 3.1-type) to save your captures until you decide to edit your files with video-editing software.

Cordially,
Tammy

catnap1972:
Are there any drawbacks to those types of devices from what you've experienced?

Blanquepage:

--- Quote from: catnap1972 on November 08, 2021, 08:08:55 AM ---Are there any drawbacks to those types of devices from what you've experienced?

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While this has made the digitization of my library exponentially more efficient, the only drawback for me I guess is how no longer preserving everything on physical DVD's can lead to a bit of risk losing terabytes of content if something were to happen to the drive on which everything is stored. Spending some additional money on a cloud backup service has therefore become an added expense for me.

clemon79:

--- Quote from: Blanquepage on November 08, 2021, 11:03:06 AM ---While this has made the digitization of my library exponentially more efficient, the only drawback for me I guess is how no longer preserving everything on physical DVD's can lead to a bit of risk losing terabytes of content if something were to happen to the drive on which everything is stored. Spending some additional money on a cloud backup service has therefore become an added expense for me.

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Burned DVDs aren't forever either.

If you really care about keeping your data for all time: three total copies of your data, two different devices, one offsite. (Keeping a local and a cloud backup in addition to your originals satisfies all of these.)

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