Any way to bring Hi8 to look reasonable?

[Mike Kujbida]

Of course it’s possible.
The quality will be much better than VHS and people burn that to DVD all the time.

[Dave Haynie]

If you can borrow a Digital8 camera, you can use it to bring Hi8 into your PC as DV, directly. Assuming, of course, you still have Firewire around.

Assuming no damage (tapes of this type are often old enough to be losing it a bit), you can get within shouting distance of DV, probably better than many consumer DV camcorders… VHS-C or plain Video8 typically held up the consumer low-end in those days.

-Dave

[Mike Hinkel]

He still has the HI8 camcorder and I have a Canopus AVDC 110 w/firewire that I used for transferring some super VHS awhile back. That didn’t come out too awful bad. I’ll have to look and see what he has. My only concern is for the way the tapes may have been stored and if they are extended play. He said there are a lot of glitches when played back. If I remember drop outs were common.