Devlon uses a tv tuner card in his computer (less than $100) to digitize the content. You need an RCA cord to plug into the cam and computer.One thing we've had terrible trouble with, though, is the sound going out of sync. It seems to capture audio at a slightly different rate than video. The
My Sony Handicam takes Hi8 and Digital8. To get the Hi-8 tapes onto
the hard drive, I put them in the Handicam and import in iMovie like
normal, via firewire. The main difference from my standpoint is that
you have to manually press play on the camcorder: iMovie can't send
the play command for
On 4/7/06, Stephanie Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My Sony Handicam takes Hi8 and Digital8. To get the Hi-8 tapes onto
the hard drive, I put them in the Handicam and import in iMovie like
normal, via firewire. The main difference from my standpoint is that
you have to manually press play
I have the same setup as Stephanie though I've also used it often for converting VHS also. I'll run a VCR into the analog imputs of the camera and record the video to DV (some cameras don't make you do this - they just pass the video on through to firewire). Then play back the DV and capture
