Transfer Hi-8 tapes (analog&digital) to computer for editing
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Help. I have a lot of old Hi8 analog tapes and Hi8-Digital tapes created with a Sony Handycam. (home movies). I want to get them into my computer for editing.
The camera has Svideo and RCA outputs. My computer has firewire and USB inputs.
Do I need an analog to digital capture device to do this? Do I need this sort of device for the digital tapes too, since no one seems to make a cable with Svideo on one end and firewire/USB on the other.
If I do buy one of these converters, what would you suggest? Will the quality be ok for home movies? (I want to be able to project the edited video onto a screen).
Thanks for any help.
Dansof
The camera has Svideo and RCA outputs. My computer has firewire and USB inputs.
Do I need an analog to digital capture device to do this? Do I need this sort of device for the digital tapes too, since no one seems to make a cable with Svideo on one end and firewire/USB on the other.
If I do buy one of these converters, what would you suggest? Will the quality be ok for home movies? (I want to be able to project the edited video onto a screen).
Thanks for any help.
Dansof
This wont help much....but I had a similar problem , loads of Hi8 analogue tapes from my old canon video camera - I solved it by buying one of the newer sony jobs that records DV digital to 8mm tapes but can still play back the old analogue tapes. It does an analogue to digital conversion on the fly then sends the result to the PC through the built in firewire. Job done. No loss of quality either. If you cant get a converter maybe ebay for a cheap old sony unit like the one I have - I am only keeping mine now as a backup unit in case I ever have to download the video files back to the PC again. Im not running raid storage right now so a hard disk failure will mean I have to do them again.
I would suggest either of the following:
Install a decent video capture card onto your PC, that has Composite Video and/or S-Video inputs.
You should then be able to play the tapes from your Hi-8 camera, and capture the recordings on your PC.
Alternatively, you could get the tapes converted to a more up to date format (miniDV) then you should be able to connect any half-decent MiniDV camcorder to your firewire connection on the PC, and transfer the films that way.
I can give you details of a company that can convert footage at reasonable cost if you wanted to choose that route.
Install a decent video capture card onto your PC, that has Composite Video and/or S-Video inputs.
You should then be able to play the tapes from your Hi-8 camera, and capture the recordings on your PC.
Alternatively, you could get the tapes converted to a more up to date format (miniDV) then you should be able to connect any half-decent MiniDV camcorder to your firewire connection on the PC, and transfer the films that way.
I can give you details of a company that can convert footage at reasonable cost if you wanted to choose that route.
Ah.
I now see that this is a duplicate thread!
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I now see that this is a duplicate thread!
www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?t=261365&f=109&h=0
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