As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
And a very special thank you to our Guides (moderators), past and present, who kept our forums a happy place to be. You are the glue that held everything together, and we are forever grateful to you. Thank you aliceinwdw, Caldercup, MrsM, WillCAD, Fortissimo, GingerJ, HiddenMickey, CRCrazy, Eeyoresmom, disneyknut, disneydani, Cam22, chezp, WDWfan, Luvsun, KMB733, rescuesk, OhToodles!, Colexis Mom, lfredsbo, HiddenMickey, DrDolphin, DopeyGirl, duck addict, Disneybine, PixieMichele, Sandra Bostwick, Eeyore Tattoo, DyanKJ130, Suzy Q'Disney, LilMarcieMouse, AllisonG, Belle*, Chrissi, Brant, DawnDenise, Crystalloubear, Disneymom9092, FanOfMickey, Goofy4Goofy, GoofyMom, Home4us123, iamgrumpy, ilovedisney247, Jennifer2003, Jenny Pooh, KrisLuvsDisney, Ladyt, Laughaholic88, LauraBelle Hime, Lilianna, LizardCop, Loobyoxlip, lukeandbrooksmom, marisag, michnash, MickeyMAC, OffKilter_Lynn, PamelaK, Poor_Eeyore, ripkensnana, RobDVC, SHEANA1226, Shell of the South, snoozin, Statelady01, Tara O'Hara, tigger22, Tink and Co., Tinkerbelz, WDWJAMBA, wdwlovers, Wendyismyname, whoSEZ, WildforWD, and WvuGrrrl. You made the magic.
We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.
That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
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Hi! My "research project" for the summer is to figure out how to transfer old VHS tapes on to my computer. The tapes are home video tapes, ranging from 1995 to 2004-ish. How can I transfer the video onto my PC? I thought about connecting my VCR to my computer, but I have no way to get the tapes into the VCR, as they are small enough to go in a camcorder. I also considered trying to hook my camcorder (with the tape into my computerand transfer it that way, but it is an old video camera and has no computer hookup that I know of. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!! Thanks!
Are they VHS-C tapes(larger)? If they are, there is a converter that you drop the tape in that makes them a standard size video tape. If they are DVC tapes (tiny), you will probably need to hook up your video camera to your VCR.
We ended up getting a DVD burner and connected it to our VCR/DVD combo player. Then we recorded our tapes (our first camera used the VHS-C tapes, our second the DVC tapes) directly onto DVD. From there, I could download them to the computer if I needed additional copies.
Okay, I have now gathered all the specifics and still have no clue!!! The video camcorder is a Magnavox Easy Cam that runs with vhs-c tapes, purchased about 1995.
I can effectively hook up the camera to the vcr. so how can I hook up the vcr to the computer?? My vcr is a RCA home theater. it says VHS plus on it. Does anyone have any ideas??? Or can I somehow just skip the whole VCR step and hook the camera up directly to the computer?? (by the way, my computer is a Dell that runs on Vista.) Once the video is on my computer, i can use Roxio to change it to DVD format.
You will definitely want to skip the VCR step. These are analog recordings and with each subsequent copy quality will suffer. You basically have two options; get a VHS to DVD copier and a VHS-C adapter or get yourself a capture device to convert the video to something you can edit. I've used a predecessor to this DVD Xpress DX2 before with very good results.
thank you very much!!!! I just discovered that my camera has a video/audio out holes (?) in it. does anyone know if they sell connectors with video/audio (yellow/white) jacks on one side, and a usb connector on the other?? thanks!
It's possible, but I doubt it. You're still talking about an analog signal. You'll need something, hardware or software, to make the conversion to a digital format.
There are many devices that can help you. What you need is a "video capture" device. You can buy that as a card to install in the PC, or a box with cables attached - just as you wish, you can connect those video/audio outputs on the camera directly to one of those boxes, and plug the other end into your USB port. Any decent camera shop or computer store will have something for you. Prices start at around $40, and go up from there depending on the bells and whistles. I can't make any personal recommendations, as I don't have one.
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If you have a newer Camcorder, It may have what is called "Pass Through Mode"
or Analog Video Dubbing..
Some of the Camcorder makers made these options so that people with the older
video recorders could transfer their video from the older analog video recorders
to their computers or to the newer Mini DV without losing a lot of the quality of
the original tape.
In "Pass Through Mode", your newer camcorder acted as a analog to digital
converter, so that you can transfer your older video to a computer.
You play back your tape in your old camera through a AV cable plugged
into your new camcorder and it would convert and transfer the video through a Firewire cable to your computer.
In "Dubbing Mode" you could play back your old video camera into the newer
digital camcorder through a AV cable and the newer digital camcorder
would record everything to the mini dv tape in the digital camcorder, or
you could put a tape in your VCR and then play it into the digital camcorder
and transfer the recording that way.
Now some of these camcorders are discontinued and you can still
buy one on Ebay really cheap and get your video transfered over to
something newer to work with.
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