Fianl Cut Pro 3.0: Commercial vs. Academic Versions?

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

There's gotta be a way to wedge output capture from that LaserDisk player between the digital I/O and analog conversion. Difficult enough trick to pull off back in the day for copy protection BS, but this is the Arduino, BeagleBone, rPi, SEEED era. [}] ]'>

 

[Cory5412]

Laserdiscs do not have any copy protection at all.

Just find a player and connect it to the DV converter. There's no need to make this more complicated than it needs to be.

A 12-core Mac Pro will be "ideal" for this task in the sense that a blue-and-white Power Mac with a second empty disk for capture can also easily do this task. If you aren't going to be doing a lot of editing or effects then there's not going to be an awful lot of work for the Mac Pro to do.

There is no parallelization you can really do in terms of capture, outside of just having multiple computers, although once you  have a pile of converted files, you could use a batch process or a tool like Compressor to convert the DV files to, say, h.264 or h.265/HEVC, just depending on what your goals are with the conversion.

 

[jongleur]

I used to use iMovie (OS9 and OSX) to do simple capture of Beta and VHS tapes via my ADVC-100 and do the editing in FCP3 on my QS2002 2x1G, originally in OS9.22, then later in OSX.  After I upgraded my G4 CPUs with the Sonnet 1.8G Duet I had to run predominantly in OSX as the dual 1.8s were not supported under OS9

 

[Cory5412]

That type of workflow is exactly where I encountered the Sony device.

I was helping capture old VHS and SVHS tapes as DV, ultimately to burn to DVD for archival. We happened to use a 20-inch Core2Duo iMac for the task, but I was working with DV on my blue-and-white G3@450 at the time and I booted from its stock 6 gig disk and captured onto and edited with a 20-gig disk I added later to it, and it worked very well.