Supported formats

[Cristian Badilla]

Digital 8 is an analog format. To import analog video to digital editing systems you need analog in, for example a Mojo connected to your computer, a video card with analog in or in someway copy from analog to any digital format. I connected a VHS player to a DV player with analog in and it works for me.
Badilla

[Jon Zanone]

What version of AXP do you have? If you are running pre-Mojo software, then you can use a converter box to get your analog signal to the Avid. If you have it, you can plug direct into the Mojo. In terms of SD, Avid doesn’t care if it’s Digi8, VHS or DVCPro – it’s an analog signal.

Jon

“So you want to throw out the old you – but the old you is old enough to know it won’t make it better”
Del Amitri – “Make it Better”

[Philip Boal]

Digital 8 has a firewire port and the Avid regards it as DVCAM, just like it does mini-dv. It works very well. Hi-8 is analog, and needs to be converted. When I use a Hi-8 tape in my Digital 8 camera it digitizes thru the firewire but skips the occasional frames.

I actually like digi-8 better than miniDV, bigger tape, more robust, but certainly the cameras will never be on par.