"You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could you didn't stop to think if you should!" 🦖 Haha... I don't know what the hell I'm doing, but this big idea popped into my brain and there suddenly was this really exciting puzzle to solve and although I'm not the first person in the world to try to digitize VHS in the highest quality possible, maybe I'm the first to make a three part series for UA-cam documenting using Final Cut Pro 7 to do it? Anyway, I hope you enjoy and tell me your stories about the glory days of FCP7 in the replies!
Great channel. I have been transfering old film and video ever since a DVD recorder first came out. I have been digitizing VHS footage by using Panasonic dual DVD/VHS Recorders.A DMR-EZ48V has HDMI output. I know that it is a little convoluted but it has been working for many years. The VHS tape is transfered to a DVD and then I use Handbrake to rip the data. This method is really nice because you can set it and forget it. It will even automaticly finalize the disks. Resolution and quality are pretty much identcal to VHS, although uprezing is possible . I can now use current Final Cut with no problems. This method alows me to transfer without tying up my puter. And the bonus is that you have a digital back-up with the DVD that you can reproduce a file for further editing or what ever.
Wow, cool video. I've been paralyzed from a surfing accident for 25 years now and I have partial movement in my right arm only. When I started editing video in 2001, I used FCP and had various DV and HDV decks. I started with the first FCP then all the way up to FCP 7, todays video editors have it so easy now and they don't realize how much time, effort and patience it took to edit with tape. I now use Resolve to edit because it's a lot like FCP 7 but much more powerful and better for color grading. Your video brings back good memories for me and many others, but I'm glad we don't have to use tape all the time anymore. Thanks and keep the videos coming brother. Bobby D,
So funny you should say this because one of the other videos I'm going to make related to this series is something to the effect of... what if you were a UA-camr like UA-cam is today (shooting and editing with ease with our current tools) but it was 2006. So you're shooting on a Sony Handycam that records to miniDV and you're editing on a Mac with Final Cut Pro and trying to make UA-cam videos like we all make today. Obviously not the same quality but what would the workflow look like if you had to get a video made every couple of weeks. I'm not articulating this well so I need to figure it out because coming up with a good title is going to be key. If UA-cam was like it is today but in 2006 what would the workflow look like for UA-camrs to get videos made. Haha. Something like that.
Thanks, buddy. Appreciate you tuning in and dropping a comment. Now we just gotta get you a Sony Handycam and a Super 8mm camera for some vids on YOUR channel 😉🤣
Aw man, this brings back memories - I used to do this as part of my job, we'd do digital archiving of people's old tapes. FCP 7 - what a workhorse. Far and away the best option at the time. I do love FCPX now, and enjoy the streamlined workflow / magnetic timeline / real time playback etc. but FCP 7 will always have a special place in my heart.
Love how everything in high-end video gear back in '08 looked like little Mac Pro towers (like my G-RAID backup drive bay). Great idea to film this! I might have to steal. I've currently got my 2008 Mac Pro sitting next to my desk, strictly to try to set an old Steinberg audio interface to run as a slave ADAT set of preamps (Steinberg gave up on updating drivers after OS X 10.11) Might film it! The typewriter was a stroke of genius.
So appreciate that! And yes, definitely make that video! I’ve got another one planned involving Aperture 3 and yet another Thunderbolt Display… Should be fun! Let me know if you make yours and when you post it 🤘
@@matthewTobrien Oh cool! Do you think the older Apple displays are worth it (if one finds a good deal on them)? I'm tempted! I'm getting desperate for a 4K+ display, but can't $3000 right now. Thanks for the motivational words re: video. My first attempts to get the interface into the correct slave mode ended in failure. Not sure if it's worth making a vid if I achieve nothing… or maybe it could be the best way to solicit help from viewers. OK, you talked me into it: I'll make the vid!😅
Whoa yes FCP7 nostalgia. We used to edit entire episodes of the nationally broadcast show “Passtime” on the Speed Channel, using multicam in FCP7. Glory days. I still have FCP7 installed on my 17” 2007 MacBook Pro, and it still works. I think I still have my FCP6 install disks, but not sure if I still have the 3 big print manuals, which I read constantly. 😍 SVHS : as far as I remember , it’s an upgraded and separate format than VHS, with more lines of resolution, and it requires special SVHS tapes. 🤔 So it doesn’t theoretically make standard VHS tapes look better, but it will play VHS tapes. And the SVHS connection is theoretically better.
So cool, Ben! I was a bit too late out of film school to get into the thick of episodic or feature workflows with FCP7 (or earlier) and I went all-in on FCPX upon release - kinda wish I had had another year or so to work in high end FCP7 workflows.
That title had me bursting out laughing. :D What a great project and so well-made! Great stuff, Matthew. It reminds me of the time when I was broke and I repaired and built Macs on the side.
Oh that’s great! So glad. And what a cool side hustle! I’ve been dabbling in that a bit with buying some cool older cameras and selling them on eBay. It’s fun! I have a couple VCRs to sell as well haha.
I digitize VHS tapes directly in FCPX using a Sony PD170P camera that has analog inputs and a DV output. The conversion happens directly with the pass-through signal. The advantage is that it corrects all the sync errors of the old video tapes. 😉
Hey. I still have the DVX100, so how I can go around and “re-upscale” the quality on FCPX. If so, what’s the best settings to do so? Are there other software options other than FCPX?
I didn’t test FCP but I’ve used Blackmagic’s app before. I’m mostly using FCP7 for the fun of it and because I’ve used it in the past to do this. Overkill? Sure. But it makes me excited to make a video about it.
Cool video l look farward to part 2. I used FCP from version 1 l still use FCP7 weekly, as l have 15+ years of projects on it (l was a die hard fan for basic edits). But my 2011 Mac mini just died last week 💀 having been hammered for 13 years 😳 l have an M1 MacBook Pro and a PC work station but seems like there is no work around to open, convert, run FCP except to buy a new old Mac. Any recommendations or advice ? I have a 1tb Sata ssd with El Capitan and FCP7 installed that l pulled from my dead Mac Mini. Would you recommend a Mac Pro 2013 ? I know at least from your video it will work 😊
I'm excited to make the next two parts! It might be a minute before Part II gets posted, but I'm hoping to have it up by the end of the month. I still have to actually do the next part (and film it!). Thanks for watching a dropping a comment.
Cool vid! Final Cut Pro 7 tops out at macOS 10.12 Sierra. However, there is a patch/hack out there that can let you run it on 10.13 High Sierra. See if I can find it and post the name/link…
@@matthewTobrien The odd digit macOS releases tended to be cutoffs back in those days, and High Sierra was a threshold for a lot of things, including a whole bunch of 2009-2011 Macs. So it would make sense if FCP 7 went up to HS, but not natively. The fact that Retroactive allows it to run means it can't have been far off. But of course Apple wouldn't want to allow its old NLE continue to be supported when the new one was out!
My Discord for channel members is probably the closest thing. I'm also in an FCP server that isn't public, but it's a bunch of pro editors working with FCP for features, docs, commercial, UA-cam, etc. But I hear you - a few good Facebook Groups but Discord is the better option in my opinion.
"You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could you didn't stop to think if you should!" 🦖 Haha... I don't know what the hell I'm doing, but this big idea popped into my brain and there suddenly was this really exciting puzzle to solve and although I'm not the first person in the world to try to digitize VHS in the highest quality possible, maybe I'm the first to make a three part series for UA-cam documenting using Final Cut Pro 7 to do it? Anyway, I hope you enjoy and tell me your stories about the glory days of FCP7 in the replies!
Great channel. I have been transfering old film and video ever since a DVD recorder first came out. I have been digitizing VHS footage by using Panasonic dual DVD/VHS Recorders.A DMR-EZ48V has HDMI output. I know that it is a little convoluted but it has been working for many years. The VHS tape is transfered to a DVD and then I use Handbrake to rip the data. This method is really nice because you can set it and forget it. It will even automaticly finalize the disks. Resolution and quality are pretty much identcal to VHS, although uprezing is possible . I can now use current Final Cut with no problems. This method alows me to transfer without tying up my puter. And the bonus is that you have a digital back-up with the DVD that you can reproduce a file for further editing or what ever.
Wow, cool video. I've been paralyzed from a surfing accident for 25 years now and I have partial movement in my right arm only. When I started editing video in 2001, I used FCP and had various DV and HDV decks. I started with the first FCP then all the way up to FCP 7, todays video editors have it so easy now and they don't realize how much time, effort and patience it took to edit with tape. I now use Resolve to edit because it's a lot like FCP 7 but much more powerful and better for color grading. Your video brings back good memories for me and many others, but I'm glad we don't have to use tape all the time anymore. Thanks and keep the videos coming brother. Bobby D,
So funny you should say this because one of the other videos I'm going to make related to this series is something to the effect of... what if you were a UA-camr like UA-cam is today (shooting and editing with ease with our current tools) but it was 2006. So you're shooting on a Sony Handycam that records to miniDV and you're editing on a Mac with Final Cut Pro and trying to make UA-cam videos like we all make today. Obviously not the same quality but what would the workflow look like if you had to get a video made every couple of weeks. I'm not articulating this well so I need to figure it out because coming up with a good title is going to be key.
If UA-cam was like it is today but in 2006 what would the workflow look like for UA-camrs to get videos made. Haha. Something like that.
Loved this Matthew! Bringing all the old tech back out and making it work together. Looking forward to Part 2!
Thanks, buddy. Appreciate you tuning in and dropping a comment. Now we just gotta get you a Sony Handycam and a Super 8mm camera for some vids on YOUR channel 😉🤣
@@matthewTobrien Let’s goooooo!!!
I still have a working Powerbook G4 with FC3 installed on it. Brings back so many wonderful memories.
Incredible! Gotta keep the old tech alive!
Aw man, this brings back memories - I used to do this as part of my job, we'd do digital archiving of people's old tapes. FCP 7 - what a workhorse. Far and away the best option at the time. I do love FCPX now, and enjoy the streamlined workflow / magnetic timeline / real time playback etc. but FCP 7 will always have a special place in my heart.
Mine as well! And it brought back all the feels just re-installing it. Haha. I’ve got a few things planned with ol’ FCP7.
Love how everything in high-end video gear back in '08 looked like little Mac Pro towers (like my G-RAID backup drive bay). Great idea to film this! I might have to steal. I've currently got my 2008 Mac Pro sitting next to my desk, strictly to try to set an old Steinberg audio interface to run as a slave ADAT set of preamps (Steinberg gave up on updating drivers after OS X 10.11) Might film it! The typewriter was a stroke of genius.
So appreciate that! And yes, definitely make that video! I’ve got another one planned involving Aperture 3 and yet another Thunderbolt Display… Should be fun! Let me know if you make yours and when you post it 🤘
@@matthewTobrien Oh cool! Do you think the older Apple displays are worth it (if one finds a good deal on them)? I'm tempted! I'm getting desperate for a 4K+ display, but can't $3000 right now.
Thanks for the motivational words re: video. My first attempts to get the interface into the correct slave mode ended in failure. Not sure if it's worth making a vid if I achieve nothing… or maybe it could be the best way to solicit help from viewers. OK, you talked me into it: I'll make the vid!😅
Whoa yes FCP7 nostalgia. We used to edit entire episodes of the nationally broadcast show “Passtime” on the Speed Channel, using multicam in FCP7. Glory days.
I still have FCP7 installed on my 17” 2007 MacBook Pro, and it still works.
I think I still have my FCP6 install disks, but not sure if I still have the 3 big print manuals, which I read constantly. 😍
SVHS : as far as I remember , it’s an upgraded and separate format than VHS, with more lines of resolution, and it requires special SVHS tapes. 🤔 So it doesn’t theoretically make standard VHS tapes look better, but it will play VHS tapes. And the SVHS connection is theoretically better.
So cool, Ben! I was a bit too late out of film school to get into the thick of episodic or feature workflows with FCP7 (or earlier) and I went all-in on FCPX upon release - kinda wish I had had another year or so to work in high end FCP7 workflows.
@@matthewTobrien awesome, Matt, yeah.
That title had me bursting out laughing. :D What a great project and so well-made! Great stuff, Matthew. It reminds me of the time when I was broke and I repaired and built Macs on the side.
Oh that’s great! So glad. And what a cool side hustle! I’ve been dabbling in that a bit with buying some cool older cameras and selling them on eBay. It’s fun! I have a couple VCRs to sell as well haha.
Matthew! Another amazing video! Seriously I just got off the phone with somebody from Sweetwater trying to ask them about how to digitize VHS tapes 😃
What a great blast from the past! Love this video 😊
Thank you, Francis! And thanks for watching 🤘
I digitize VHS tapes directly in FCPX using a Sony PD170P camera that has analog inputs and a DV output. The conversion happens directly with the pass-through signal. The advantage is that it corrects all the sync errors of the old video tapes. 😉
Hey. I still have the DVX100, so how I can go around and “re-upscale” the quality on FCPX. If so, what’s the best settings to do so? Are there other software options other than FCPX?
I love this 👏👏👏 looking forward to the next one 😀
Appreciate that, Jake! These should be fun for those of us who enjoy ridiculous retro tech excursions… 😂
@@matthewTobrien yessss 😆👍
This was amazing! I’m in love with nostalgia. What kind of typewriter effect are you using?
So glad you enjoyed it! If you mean the shots of the typewriter I filmed that all myself with my typewriter. Did it all in camera!
Before travelling down the road did you test FCPX or Black Magic Media Express to record to ProRes?
I didn’t test FCP but I’ve used Blackmagic’s app before. I’m mostly using FCP7 for the fun of it and because I’ve used it in the past to do this. Overkill? Sure. But it makes me excited to make a video about it.
Wow. Blast from the past. 👍🏼
Haha - exactly!
Digitizing in real time !! wow !! been a long long time :)
Wow! Great video, can I have a link to download the Final Cut Pro 7 to be able to install in my MacOS?
Thank you so much
Also, does this mean I should be able to use my late 2014 iMac 5K as target extrernal display with my forthcoming new MacBook Pro M3 16”? 😱🙏🏼🙏🏼
I don't believe so - the computer that you want to use and send image from has to be macOS Catalina or earlier and Intel, I believe.
@@matthewTobrien ohhh I see. Oh yeah that makes sense.
Wow! Did you tried Retroactive app to run FCP7 on modern macOS?
I didn’t! I didn’t even know it existed!
Cool video l look farward to part 2. I used FCP from version 1 l still use FCP7 weekly, as l have 15+ years of projects on it (l was a die hard fan for basic edits). But my 2011 Mac mini just died last week 💀 having been hammered for 13 years 😳 l have an M1 MacBook Pro and a PC work station but seems like there is no work around to open, convert, run FCP except to buy a new old Mac. Any recommendations or advice ? I have a 1tb Sata ssd with El Capitan and FCP7 installed that l pulled from my dead Mac Mini. Would you recommend a Mac Pro 2013 ? I know at least from your video it will work 😊
I'm excited to make the next two parts! It might be a minute before Part II gets posted, but I'm hoping to have it up by the end of the month. I still have to actually do the next part (and film it!). Thanks for watching a dropping a comment.
Cool vid! Final Cut Pro 7 tops out at macOS 10.12 Sierra. However, there is a patch/hack out there that can let you run it on 10.13 High Sierra. See if I can find it and post the name/link…
Ahhhhh it’s Sierra, not High Sierra. I don’t know what made me think it was High Sierra 🤦♂️
@@matthewTobrien The odd digit macOS releases tended to be cutoffs back in those days, and High Sierra was a threshold for a lot of things, including a whole bunch of 2009-2011 Macs. So it would make sense if FCP 7 went up to HS, but not natively. The fact that Retroactive allows it to run means it can't have been far off. But of course Apple wouldn't want to allow its old NLE continue to be supported when the new one was out!
we need a final cut discord
My Discord for channel members is probably the closest thing. I'm also in an FCP server that isn't public, but it's a bunch of pro editors working with FCP for features, docs, commercial, UA-cam, etc. But I hear you - a few good Facebook Groups but Discord is the better option in my opinion.
I have a Canopus, so I’m able to digitize using iMovie.
What is a Canopus? I have never heard of such a thing… I’ll have to look it up!
@@matthewTobrien Canopus ADVC-100 Analog to Digital Video Converter
@monizfilms I will check it out. I have a couple composite to USB converters but I want a much higher quality ingest…
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this why I don't like the new Macs (silicon) you cant run the older Mac OS. I couldn't believe my Canon XL1 still work with FCP 10.4.6