Stefan de Konink wrote on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 > Isn't the best solution for Hi8 to buy a Digital8 camcorder somewhere and > play it out via Firewire? > >
I don't think so, in my case. First I've read that using a camcorder for conversion S-video to DV one loose about 15% of the vide quality or was it Signal/noise ratio. A good dedicated ADVC hardware like Canopus was better. Understandable one pay for just the ADVC hardware compared to a D8 camcorder with addtional zoom lese, CCD, tape drive etc. Next there can occure minor differences between campcorder(9 and models with regards to precision of physical location of videoheads and tape tracks. I exchanged three Sony Hi8 camcorder models, TR-805 (1992), TR-808(93) and TR-2000(94), before the latter held the quality I was satisfied with. Especially the mechanical tape drives in the two first models were too weak and unstable, causing visible time base errors on the footage. TR-2000 had a new more robust and stable tape drive. These exchange also showed that even these very similar Sony TR-models replaced each other, there was minor visible differences in the tape/head tracks. This can also be the result after a service where the video heads are replaced, without exactly adjustment using a previous tape footage. Therefore most of my Hi8 tape footage are recorded with TR-2000, which still is working well. And this is also why I will use TR-2000 for playback during AD conversion with a dedicated ADVC, without introducing another D8 camcorder model. My expected setup scheme will be as follows: Sony TR2000 camcorder Hi8-out-->Videonics MX1/TBC-->S-video In ADVC-->DV out Fire wire-->DV In Firewire PC [S-video In ADVC-->DV out Firewire-->DV In Firewire PC]] may here be replaced with [DN-300 recorder-->Firewire PC] ] [Sony TR2000 camcorder Hi8-out-->Videonics MX1/TBC] may also be supplied with [Sony TR2000 camcorder Hi8-out-->VideoTech VCC3010 RGB corrector/enhancher-->Videonics MX1/TBC] Rgds, Terje J. Hanssen _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
