To work with video on a computer you must have it or make it into a digital file. Digital 8 and mini-DV camcorders capture digital information and transfer it via firewire to a computer. Analogue camcorders, like Hi-8, capture data that must be converted to digital before a computer can recognize and work with it. The Digital 8 camcorders Sony invented were meant as a bridge between the two technologies. You could take a Hi-8 tape recorded in an analogue unit, put it in a D-8 camcorder and transfer it to your computer via the firewire port in the camcorder, provided you had a firewire port in the computer too. Using the RCA cables (video=yellow, right channel audio=red, left channel audio=white) you could also connect a VCR to the camcorder and transfer VHS tape, to or through the camcorder to the computer. If you didn't have a firewire-equipped camera and computer, you could buy a video card for your computer that had RCA connections, and link your Hi-8 to the video card to capture digital video. The early cards didn't capture full resolution (720 X 480 pixels in North America) but they did let you play your video on the computer. Then a few manufacturers made devices that would stand between the computer and the old-style (analogue) camcorders and transfer via RCA from the camcorder, then firewire from the device, full resolution digital video to the computer. These typically cost from one to three hundred US dollars for consumer grade equipment. The S-Video port replaces the yellow RCA cable, when it is available on both the camcorder/VCR and computer. It improves the video signal by about 10% or so, enough to make it worth using if it's available. Today anyone can edit digital video on computer, regardless of whether the source is analogue or digital, with a relatively small investment. But like all worthwhile goals, it takes time and study to reach the point where it seems simple. Keep asking questions and reading and you'll get there.
David Hurdon www.contentshop.tv At 12:22 AM 11/4/2004 +0000, you wrote: please explain more. i didnt know that there could be an in AND out in s-video. does that mean i can record from camera-tv-computer? please explain how you would do that, i also dont understand the sound on rca thing. --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dana Hudes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Isaac Yeung wrote: > > > > > > > the tape it uses is a hi8 MP tape. > > is this clear enough? > > yes > > there is no output to it that can be plugged into a computer. > > wrong. My PC has an S-video and composit video in and out. > > hi8 you use the s-video output and you need to connect the sound on an rca > jack... ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/ADr1lB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
