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Hi8
I’m trying to do an “oral history video” while visiting relatives this holiday. The camera I have access to is Hi8. I have no way to play the tapes when I get home. I’ll have my PC laptop with me that has Adobe Premiere 6.0 loaded on it. If I digitize the video to my laptop, do you know how I would import it to my Apple FCP Studio?
Thanks. Happy Holidays!
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7 Replies
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1. Rent a DV camcorder.
2. Borrow a DV camcoder.
3. Buy a USED DV Camcorder.
4. Buy a NEW DV camcorder.Hi8 is a vastly inferior format to DV.
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Plus there’s no way that I know of to get it into his laptop anyway, being that Hi8 is an analog format. I have to wonder if he means digital8, which is really DV25 on a Hi8 tape, with a firewire output.
But with all that in mind, to answer his question, the best method would be to never put the video on the PC laptop. Just load it into FCP. Why the PC laptop?
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From Hi8 to DV you’ll need some sort of converter box… any DV camera would do that has the ability to pass thru. Most do. If you can record something INTO the dv camera via an RCA cable type input then you should be fine. OR, you’ll need to buy a 250US dollar box like something from canapus… I forget the name of it… do a google.
Good luck,
CaptM
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Geez you can buy a DV camera for $250. Especially used. Do that before ya waste money on a converter box and shoot Hi8.
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How about $199.00 factory sealed?
https://store.yahoo.com/tech1global-store/sharpvlnz50.html
I have one of these… neat!
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A DIGITAL8 camcorder will play Hi8 tapes and output their content as a DV stream via Firewire.
Borrow, or find a used one, like Sony DCR-TRV320, 350, etc. The U.S. versions of these camcorders can also be used in pass-through mode for low-end analog to DV conversion, using analog composite or S-Video and audio inputs and outputting DV on the Firewire cable. -
Matte —
Looked at the specs and I couldn’t find it, but does that camera allow for video to come in via RCA or S-video?
Maybe I missed it.
CaptM
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