How do you get music and video on computer??

[SightUnseen]

I know its a silly question but if I have original video from a 8mm cassette how do I get it on the computer? copy it? onto what and how?

What's the best thing to record live music on to put it on the computer and how?

[Corrine]

Your video camera should have come with a cable that connects it to your computer. Connect your camera to the computer. Then open (assuming you are on Windows. If you aren't, someone else will have to help.) Windows Movie Maker and do Capture Video. If you tell it to capture the video automatically, it will rewind your tape and play it in the little window to the right while recording it onto your computer. Then it will give you a gallery of clips from your tape. Drag the clips you want to use into the storyboard/timeline at the bottom, put in transitions and/or special effects, titles, credits, and whatnot. Then go to the file menu and do "Save as Movie" and save your movie. Experiment with all you can do on the program. (You can edit out the boring parts of your tape, rearrange the clips, fade to black, add words to the clip, add music, things like that.)

Hope this helps.

[The Unknown Gomer]

Yeah, what she said! :cool:

An additional suggestion if your 8mm camera doesn't have a computer connection (mine doesn't, but then, my last upgrade was to VHS-C :rolleyes: Yeah, my bad.) ... Pay someone else to do it for you. :D

You're Raleigh local, right?

Re the video: Carolina Custom Video in Cary can transfer your 8mm into whatever kind of PC video file you could want, or go directly to DVD. Yes that's a plug, I work for them, and would probably be the person who would actually be doing the conversion for you. :)

And re the audio? Try calling Bass Music in Raleigh (Powell Drive, over by the fairgrounds). Audio is pretty much what they do. (And no I DON'T work for them too ;) , but if anyone calls us with audio only projects, we usually refer them over to Bass.

[SightUnseen]

The band is very low budget right now, how much would this cost?

[The Unknown Gomer]

It would depend on the length of your tape. Straight tape to DVD duplication runs anywhere from $19.95 for a half hour to $39.95 for a full two hours, with additional copies costing only $10.95 each.

If you want it to be converted to a computer video file, like an mpg, avi, or wmv, that usually runs about $35/hour (in 15 min increments) for the real time read-in and conversion, plus either $8.95 to put it on a data CDR (if it would fit) or $29.95 for a data DVD. We'd need to know what you want to use it for, like for a website, or promotional CD or something like that, so we could convert it to the appropriate bit rate and file size for you.

(AND, since you mentioned audio earlier, we could take the audio from your tape and convert that to either a wav or an mp3 and put that on CDR for you as well.)

These are the standard prices, but you'd get 10% off the total cost of your invoice, due to the "because you know Karen" discount. :)