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01/23/2022 11:16:35 AM · #1 |
| I found some disks of home movies that I had converted from tape that I took back in the 70's, 80's and 90's. I would like to download and edit them on my Mac and be able to upload them to You Tube or the like so I can send them to my kids. I'm a real novice when it comes to video. Can anyone suggest a software program that would be easy to use and allow me to download the video and edit to my computer? |
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01/24/2022 10:56:18 AM · #2 |
| Your computer may already have a video editor installed - iMovie? |
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01/24/2022 12:14:25 PM · #3 |
| Adobe makes a consumer-level version of Premier (Premiere Rush) which will probably do what you need. There's at least a free trial available ... |
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01/24/2022 01:08:33 PM · #4 |
| Adobe Premiere is expensive. I use DaVinci. For basic editing if you are on Mac iMovie is fine. I am working on moving some DVD/VCD to hard drives and I really like DaVinci for cuts, exports, even some simple coloring. They have a free version that has most of what I need. |
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01/24/2022 02:17:54 PM · #5 |
| Tried I Movie. I can get it to play the video but It doesn't recognized the files to import. They are very old disks. Maybe the program is not recognized. |
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01/24/2022 03:17:38 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by GolferDDS:
Tried I Movie. I can get it to play the video but It doesn't recognized the files to import. They are very old disks. Maybe the program is not recognized. |
What format are the discs? Do you know what software was used to capture them and/or the file format (file-name extension)? I have a fair amount of legacy hardware and software ...
Do you have more than one computer there? |
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01/25/2022 10:59:27 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by GolferDDS:
Tried I Movie. I can get it to play the video but It doesn't recognized the files to import. They are very old disks. Maybe the program is not recognized. |
What format are the discs? Do you know what software was used to capture them and/or the file format (file-name extension)? I have a fair amount of legacy hardware and software ...
Do you have more than one computer there? |
Its Philips_DVD_VR. There are multiple formats. ie. Video_MN.DAT, Video_MN.IFO, R.M.BUP, R.M.DAT, R.M.IFO. There are others as well. I have absolutely no idea what they mean!
Yes, I have 2 MACS. |
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01/25/2022 01:39:04 PM · #8 |
If it's a DVD like you could play in a DVD player it is probably hard to extract the files -- I'm not so familiar with that format.
If your Macs have video ports a crude workaround might be to play the video on one and re-record it (in a better format) on the other ... |
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01/25/2022 04:34:15 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by GolferDDS:
Tried I Movie. I can get it to play the video but It doesn't recognized the files to import. They are very old disks. Maybe the program is not recognized. |
I use HandBrake to convert pretty much everything.
Recently I had a VCD with .VOB files. Made them .mp4 with no issues. I also learnt how to polish disks haha to salvage them. Believe it or not I used Brasso. It worked OK. Recovered about 80% of the content. |
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01/25/2022 05:34:56 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by Tiberius:
Originally posted by GolferDDS:
Tried I Movie. I can get it to play the video but It doesn't recognized the files to import. They are very old disks. Maybe the program is not recognized. |
I use HandBrake to convert pretty much everything.
Recently I had a VCD with .VOB files. Made them .mp4 with no issues. I also learnt how to polish disks haha to salvage them. Believe it or not I used Brasso. It worked OK. Recovered about 80% of the content. |
Thanks for the suggestions. I�ll give them a try. |
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