This winter I transferred a ton of VHS tapes and a bunch of MiniDV tapes. The process is vastly different (obviously analogue vs digital). VHS was a lot more

This winter I transferred a ton of VHS tapes and a bunch of MiniDV tapes. The process is vastly different (obviously analogue vs digital). VHS was a lot more fun with the super cool deinterlacing/FPS boost stuff you can do with AviSynth. For MiniDV I ended up using iMovie on my Macbook Pro and it worked surprisingly well. It automatically imported and spliced the different "cuts" of a single tape into different files. It even timestamped the videos with what the camera thought the time was (spoilers, tons of the times were clearly wrong). I found a guide online somewhere, but I'd like to present the dongle beast I used between my Macbook and my camera: https://i.imgur.com/wZ9rJnH.png https://i.imgur.com/wZ9rJnH.png Thunderbolt 3 -> Thunderbolt 2 -> Firewire I just handed off my MiniDV hardware setup to a friend to try out on Windows for some of his tapes. What a blast!