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Update on the project.
I got the Canopus from Scott (THANK YOU!!) and went to work. The Canopus functions as advertised, but Imovie and IDVD would only copy about 2 secs worth of tape before stopping. I bought and downloaded Premiere Elements 9 (frustrating backstory there) and it will copy, but not without drama. Every time it detects a hiccup in the tape it stops capturing. These tapes were made 20 years ago and are copies of 16mm film, some of which was shot in the mid-1930s, so there are a lot of hiccups especially near the beginning and the end. The capture stops and I have to try to start it again after the hiccup. I'm getting a crash course in basic editing stitching the various clips together. The first 110 minute tape took 6 hours. The second took 4 hours. It looks like three hours per tape is the best I'm going to be able to do and I have 10 tapes. The good news is my transitions are smoother than those on the originals, so you can't really tell. Three down, 7 to go.
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