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  Digitize Hi8

  Posted by Laurence Grundy on December 13, 2009 at 8:49 pm

  Have a stack of Hi8 tapes I need to digitize and get to DVD.

  What would be the best quality option for getting onto computer?

  1) Consumer grade capture card or box

  2) Buy a used digital8 camcorder and output via Firewire?

  The second option seems simplier.

  Thanks

  Matt Townley replied 16 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Eric Pautsch

  December 14, 2009 at 5:33 am

  What’s your budget? To get the best quality, I’d capture to an uncompressed format then use a good encoder. Remember though, your encode will only be as good as your source – which isn’t great! 🙂

  To make things easy just buy a set top recorder and go firewire into that.

  E
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  Matt Townley

  December 15, 2009 at 3:46 pm

  I have a Sony DCR-TRV350 Digital 8 camera that I use for digitizing 8mm/Hi8/D8 tapes. I go straight out with firewire into FCP. This model will play back all three formats, but be careful, not all Digital 8 models will play nicely with 8mm/Hi8. Do a search and you can find a list of the models that work with all 3 formats.

  Matt

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