I'm posting this on behalf of a friend:
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C. was playing back some of our little Digital8 videos from her childhood to a friend today, and some of them are getting choppy and bad. It is clear that we have an extremely urgent situation and need to archive all the videos as quickly and as professionally as possible, while not on a professional budget.
We are thinking that, cost-wise, putting the NOT-compressed raw data onto a lot of giant hard drives would be best, then re-archiving them to new drives every few years to maintain the archive.
We have located only one playback machine for this format: Sony GV-D200 but we are not sure if it will be higher quality and able to send the video smoothly to a computer.
We also don't know if there is a more appropriate software than iMovie for archiving on the computer side. Maybe something that can help patch together the choppiness? Like a video Photoshop kind of thing?
We really need to salvage what we can as soon as possible, and we want to make sure that what we actually archive ends up being usable.
Money is tight, but this obviously can't wait. :( There are several hundred tapes, and we need to just do this around the clock once we find something that will reliably and accurately transcribe them.
I'm really stressed out about having all these tapes lost permanently--we had no idea they were failing already. :(
Thanks for any help locating a solution.
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